Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Captain H. F. Brown, Army Service Corps, late Worcestershire Yeomanry

1914 Star (2 Lieut., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.), mounted as worn, good very fine (3) £120-160

Henry Forester Brown was born on 14 February 1893 and educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity College Cambridge where he served 12 months in the Cambridge O.T.C. Cavalry Squadron. On leaving Cambridge he was employed as an Articled Clerk. On 9 August 1914 he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Worcestershire Yeomanry but was transferred to the Army Service Corps in October the same year, being posted to the Horse Transport Depot in Deptford. With the Horse Transport Depot he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 4 November 1914 and was thence posted to No. 4 Company, 4th Divisional Train. Brown was promoted to Lieutenant on 22 March 1915 and Captain on 30 April 1916. In April 1917 he applied for a permanent commission in the Indian Army (Cavalry Division) but on 29 May he was rejected on medical grounds by the India Office because of a rheumatic heart. Despite this he was passed fit to return to France and rejoined the 4th Divisional Train in May 1917 and remained in France until September 1918. Captain Brown was demobilized on 11 April 1919; he died in Salisbury, Rhodesia on 18 July 1928. Sold with 45 copied service papers.