Photo: Jayne Seward
Jayne Seward, great-niece to Pte. Brown, has submitted the following:
"My great-uncle attended Browney School County Durham and worked at Browney Colliery before volunteering in November 1914.
He served as Able Seaman Leonard Brown with the Royal Naval Division at Gallipoli where he was wounded and also contracted dysentery.
He transferred to the Army Service Corps. He died in 1917 and is buried in Brandon Cemetery.
His full name is Leonard Doughty Brown.
I was born in Browney and went to the same school"
Leonard Doughty Brown is remembered in Browney on B160.01, B160.02 and B160.03 and in Meadowfield on M50.01 and M50.05
