Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Serjeant E. P. Brown, Irish Guards

1914 Star, with clasp (2589 Pte., Ir. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (2589 Sjt., Ir. Gds.) mounted as worn, good very fine (3) £200-260

Ernest Patrick Brown was born in Hertford. A Postman by occupation, he attested for the Irish Guards at Cambridge on 9 May 1906, aged 18 years, 1 month. Transferred to Class ‘B’ Reserve in May 1909. Mobilized at London on 5 August 1914, he was at the time a Motorman in the employ of the Isle of Thanet Tramway Company living in Ramsgate. He went to France/Flanders with the B.E.F. but was slightly wounded in the hand and invalided back to England on 29 October 1914. Brown returned to the Western Front and served 12 February 1915-February 1919. Transferred to Class ‘Z’ Reserve in March 1919.

With copied service papers, m.i.c. and two copied newspaper extracts - in one of which he gives an interview of the events of the first few weeks of the war and his wounding.