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VC207 Francis David Millett Brown
BORN 7 August 1837
DIED 21 November 1895 AGE 58
VC Won 16 November 1857 AGE 20
Place VC Won Narnoul
War/Campaign The Indian Mutiny
Name Francis David Millett Brown No.
VC Issue No. 207 Awards VC
Regiment 1st European Bengal Fusiliers
Later Royal Munster Fusiliers
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant-Colonel
Place Of Birth Bhagalpur, Bengal, India
Place Of Death Sandown, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Westhill Cemetery, St James Lane, Winchester, Hampshire, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Grave 1906/1932, Square 16
Gazetted 17 February 1860
VC Presented December 1860 by the Commader in Chief India, Sir Hugh Rose at Mooltan, India
Memorials
P Headstone, Westhill Cemetery, St James Lane, Winchester
P Named on 1st European Bengal Fusiliers (Royal Munster Fusiliers) Memorial at Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire
By The Way…
He had three sons, the eldest was killed in South Africa in 1900, the youngest was killed in Gallipoli in 1915.
VC Held By
Wellington College, Berkshire, England
