ROBERT CHARLES BROWN
Image from the Chronicle and Mercury – 1918
Born: 1892, Ipswich.
On or since death presumed: 28th April 1917; age 25; KiA.
Residence: 9, Hill Street, Ipswich.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 40626
Regiment: Norfolk Regiment, 7th Battalion.
Formerly 27059, Northampton Regiment.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Memorial Reference:
Bay 3.
Pas de Calais,
France.
Brother to JACK GLANFIELD BROWN.
CENSUS
1901 6, Cleveland Terrace, Cavendish Street, Ipswich.
Robert was 8 years old and living with his mother & siblings.
Henrietta Harriet Brown (nee Holder), 42, born Ipswich.
Nellie Brown, 13, a Corset Maker, born Ipswich.
Jack Glanfield Brown, 12, born Ipswich.
James William Brown, 10, born Ipswich.
Frederick Albert Brown, 6, born Ipswich.
Charlotte Emma Brown, 4, born Ipswich.
Alfred Edward Brown, 2, born Ipswich.
1911 9, Unity Street, Ipswich.
Robert was 18 years old, a Grocer – Wholesale Grocery. He was living with his parents & siblings.
John Brown, 53, a Labourer – Iron Foundry, born Ipswich.
Henrietta, 52.
James, 21, a Moulder – Iron Foundry.
Frederick, 16, a Labourer – Iron Foundry.
Lottie, 14.
Alfred, 12.
In 1913, in Ipswich, Robert married Annie Beckett, born October 1894, Ipswich – daughter of Walter Beckett, a blacksmith, and Maria Beckett (nee Warne), of 19, Bell Lane, Ipswich.
Annie and Robert had two children:
Robert Walter Brown, born September 1913, Ipswich.
Grace Irene Brown, born August 1916, Ipswich.
Soldiers’ Effects to Annie Wragg – widow.
Annie’s nephew, HERBERT WALTER BECKETT, the son of her brother, Herbert Stanford Beckett, lost his life during the Second World War on the 17th June 1941 from Multiple Injuries consequent on accidentally coming in contact with an armed mine whilst fishing off Felixstowe Beach.
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Upon my research I believe this could be my grandfather … is there anyway I could find out if he was married at the time of his death and to whom…. any other additional information that would help would be greatly appreciated.