Name
Andrew Cranstoun Brown*1
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/07/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
South Staffordshire Regiment
8th Bn.
'C' Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DANTZIG ALLEY BRITISH CEMETERY, MAMETZ
V. N. 9.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Tring Town Memorial, St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Tring, Individual Plaque, St John the Baptist Church, Aldbury
Pre War
Son of Dr. James and Katherine Ann Brown, born 9th November 1894.
His father died in December 1914.
Wartime Service
Killed at Fricourt.
Additional Information
Andrew is also commemorated on the family headstone in Tring Cemetery. His part of the inscription reads:
ALSO ANDREW CRANSTON(*1) ONLY SON OF THE ABOVE (James Brown). BORN NOVR.9TH 1894. KILLED AT FRICOURT JULY 2ND 1916.
*1 The naming convention appears to suggest that Andrew's surname was 'Brown' not the double barrelled Cranston-Brown that seems to be suggested on the CWGC headstone.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
