BROWN

		Source
		CWGC	SDGW	Uttoxeter Advertiser	Other
Parents			Not applicable
Where born
When born	About 1891				3
Address
Spouse	Julia Harper (formerly Brown), of 92, Carter St., Uttoxeter.	Yes
Children
Employment Before Joining up
Where enlisted
Previous military service	Member of the Uttoxeter Territorials			5a
When enlisted	Left Uttoxeter with the Territorials on 6^th August 1914			5a	1, 2
Regiment & Unit	North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’s)	Yes		5a	2, 7b, 7c
	6^th Bn	Yes
	1^st/6^th Bn			5a
	6^th T.F.				7b, 7c
	1/6^th (T.F.) Bn				2, 7c
Rank	Private	Yes			2, 7b, 7c
Service Number	2094	Yes			2, 7a, 7b, 7c
Date of Death	28 August 1919	Yes
Age at time of death	28	Yes
Where Killed or died	England
How he died
Location of Grave or Memorial	Uttoxeter Cemetery - Grave Rotation. 1092.	Yes			4
Awards	British War Medal				2
Awards	Victory Medal				2

Intriguingly, he doesn’t appear on any of the town’s memorials, but he is buried in Uttoxeter Cemetery and classed as Commonwealth War Dead. We have not been able to find him in the SDGW database, presumably because he died in August 1919.

Thomas was one of the ‘Old Contemptibles’. He left Uttoxeter with the 1^st contingent of the Uttoxeter Territorials, 1^st/6^th battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, on the 6^th of August 1914^{[1, 5a]}, just two days after the outbreak of war.

He was discharged from the army with a pension of 18s & 9d on 13^th November 1915^7b. Presumably he had been wounded at the Hohenzollern Redoubt at Loos? The pension was effective for 6 months and was conditional^7b. We suspect that the conditions were that he had another medical in six months time. This was done to a lot of men who were granted pensions for war injuries and illness. Incredibly, as their conditions improved, the authorities reduced their pensions, even if they were still unable to work!

So little of his records survived the Blitz in the Second World War that we are unable to determine the nature of his wounds, illness or disability. All that we know is that he died four years after discharge.


92 Carter Street, Uttoxeter, where his wife lived after remarrying


The grave of TL Brown in Uttoxeter Cemetery