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NAME:                      Brown, Osbert Harold
RANK:                      Captain
UNIT:                      Suffolk Regiment
BATTALION ETC:             11th Battalion
REGIMENTAL NUMBER:         (formerly S/3970 & 45260 Private Rifle Brigade)
HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH:    Killed in action 1st November 1916
WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: Brewery Orchard Cemetery, Bois-Grenier, Nord, France
OTHER INFORMATION:         DSO.(1916); MC.(1916); MID (1917). Age 24. 
                           Joined September 1914 as a Rifleman in the Rifle Brigade. Wounded July 1916.
                           Commissioned 28th October 1914.
                           Address given as 102 High Street, Winchester in Winchester War Service Register.
                           Son of Alfred Robert and Annie Brown of 3 Geneva Rd., Kingston-on-Thames.
                           In 1901 family living at 9 Southgate Road, Winchester.
                           Native of Winchester.