Six: The Reverend A. D. Brown, Indian Eclesiatical Establishment, Wesleyan Chaplain to the 1st Indian Cavalry Division in France

1914 Star, with copy clasp (Chaplain. A. D. Brown, Ind Eclstcl Estabt); British War and Victory Medals (Revd. A. D. Brown.); India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1921-24, 2nd clasp unofficially attached as issued (Chaplain A. D. Brown, Frontier Forces) middle initial corrected; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver (Rev: Alex: D. Brown Chaplain.); Coronation 1937, mounted as worn, the last loose, nearly very fine and better (6) £800-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Chaplains formed by Philip Mussell.

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Provenance: A. M. Shaw Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2012.

Alexander Downie Brown is believed to have been born in Scotland. He was appointed a Chaplain of the Wesleyan Church on the Bengal Establishment at Peshawur on 1 October 1897. He accompanied the 1st Indian Cavalry Division to France, arriving there from Bombay on 7 November 1914. The Division was renamed in November 1916 to become the 4th Cavalry Division and subsequently served in Palestine. Brown later served with the Frontier Forces on the North West Frontier of India. He returned to England in 1932, where he did good work in the Accrington, Hull, and Launceston Circuits. Later on he became an active Supernumerary in Scotland and retired to St Leonards in 1949. He died there on 7 July 1950.