Francis David Millet Brown

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Francis David Millet Brown
Umbeyla Campaign
Awards Victoria Cross

Colonel Francis David Millet Brown VC (7 August 1837 – 21 November 1895) was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Details

Brown was born on 7 August 1837 in Bhagalpur, India, the son of George Francis Brown of the Bengal Civil Service.[1][2] He was educated at Grosvenor College, Bath, and from 1852 to 1854 by a private tutor, Brisco Morland Gane, late curate of Honiton.[citation needed]

He was 20 years old, and a

Narnoul, on the 16th November, 1857, in having, at the imminent risk of his own life, rushed to the assistance of a wounded soldier of the 1st European Bengal Fusiliers, whom he carried off, under a very heavy fire from the enemy, whose cavalry were within forty or fifty yards of him at the time.[3]

He was again promoted, this time to

Levee at St James's Palace on 24 April 1860. He later [when?] achieved the rank of colonel.[citation needed
]

Personal life

Between 1868 and 1873, Brown was employed as assistant

Thomason Civil Engineering College, Roorkee
. He married Jessie Rhind Russell. Her date of birth is unknown. They had two sons:

Brown remarried,[when?] to Jessie Doris Childs, after the death of his first wife.[when?]

Death

Francis David Millet Brown died on 21 November 1895, aged 58, from undisclosed causes, in Sandown, Isle of Wight and was buried in Winchester Cemetery, after a service at Winchester Cathedral.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Royal Munster Fusiliers". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
  2. ^ Edmund Burke (1896). The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year. Longmans, Green. p. 217.
  3. ^ "No. 22357". The London Gazette. 17 February 1860. p. 557.
  4. ^ "Charles Brown Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2020.

Sources

  • Harvey, David (1999). Monuments to Courage: Victoria Cross Headstones and Memorials. Vol.1, 1854–1916. Kevin & Kay Patience.
    OCLC 59437297
    .
  • ISBN 0-906324-27-0

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