Ref ID: 51651592397
Name
Thomas Fletcher Brown.
Description
Newspaper Photograph of Second Lieutenant Thomas Fletcher Brown.
Life Story
Name: Thomas Fletcher Brown.
Service Number:
Rank: Second Lieutenant.
Battalion: 7th Battalion.
Regiment: Manchester Regiment.
Born: 5th July 1894, Belfast.
Died: 30th May 1915.
Address: 204 Shankill Road, Belfast
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Thomas Fletcher Brown, son of William and Elizabeth Brown, lived at 204 Shankill Road, Belfast
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The 1901 Ireland Census has Thomas living at 51 Shankill Road, Belfast with his mother, father, occupation, Machinist, sister Isabella, 5 years, and brother William, 1 year. A Nellie O'Neill, 26 years, General Servant, lives within the house also
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The 1911 Ireland Census has Thomas living at 6 Shankill Road, Belfast with his mother, father, Shipbuilding Machinist, two sisters, Isabella, 15 years, Lizzie, 9 years, and brother John, 3 years. Thomas occupation at this time is given as Linen Apprentice Manufacturer
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Thomas joined the Manchester Regiment.
He was posted as part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on the 6th May 1915.
Thomas was a Second Lieutenant in 7th Battalion Manchester Regiment when he was Killed In Action at the Dardanelles on the 30th May 1915 aged 20 years
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A local newspaper states.
BELFAST OFFICIER KILLED.
Mr and Mrs William Brown, 204 Shankill Road, have been notified that their elder son, Second Lieutenant Thomas Fletcher Brown, has been killed in action at the Dardanelles. Deceased,. who would have attained his twenty-first birthday next month, was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and was subsequently apprenticed to the linen business. He was a member of the Queens University Contingent of the Officers Training Corps, and on the outbreak of war he applied for a commission, and on the 2nd September was gazetted to the 7th Battalion of the Manchester Regiment
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Thomas Soldiers Effects were left to his father.
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Thomas received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1915 Star.
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He is Remembered at Redoubt Cemetery, Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey.
To Remember Is To Honour
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Theme
Shankill Roll of Honour
Date
1915
Classification
Newspaper, Photograph, - Belfast Telegraph
