Date of Birth
21 December 1886
College
Borough Road College
Job(s)
Westminster Road, Kirkdale, Liverpool
Service number
49445
WW1 rank
Private
King’s Liverpool Regiment
Theatre of war
Europe
Date of death
26 September 1917
Buried/memorial
Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium
Biography
Private George P. S. Brown attended Borough Road College for two years, competing for the college rowing team, being examined in music and teaching and graduating with an Intermediate Science. He joined the Kings Liverpool Regiment on 2 May 1916 and went to France in November 1916. He had been recommended for commission but was shot and killed by enemy aircraft on 26 September 1917. He left a wife and two sons aged 6 and 7.
Sources
Entry on p.86 [Roll of Honour page], Mentioned on Framed Borough Road College Roll of Honour, Borough Road College 1905 applications, Secondary source information provided by Douglas Craik (taken from Commonwealth War Graves Commission), 1909 Annual Report, The O.B.’s War Hum and Roll of Service (1918, 4th Edition)