Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private P. A. Brown, 4th South African Infantry, late Brands Fighting Scouts, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 19 June 1916

1914-15 Star (Pte P. A. Brown Brands F.S. Rfls); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Pte P. A. Brown. 4th S.A.I.) lacquered, generally very fine (3) £80-£100

Percy Austen Brown, a native of Cape Town, attested for Brands Fighting Scouts on 31 August 1915, aged 19. After service during the Great War in Egypt he embarked from Alexandria on 12 April 1916, disembarking at Marseilles eight days later. Serving in the Somme sector, he was killed in action on 19 July 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.