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Samuel BROWN (aka Topper) [1914-1944]

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Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2012-01-26 04:52
Names
Given: 
Samuel
Family: 
Brown
Alias / nickname: 
Topper
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
1914-10-04
Birthplace (town, state): 
Jarrow on Tyne, Northumberland
Birthplace (country): 
England
Death
Date: 
1944-02-14
Cause of death: 
Dysentery

Barbara Redwood:

[In 1941, my sister] Olive was engaged to Sam ('Topper') Brown of the Royal Artillery.

Topper died as a p.o.w in Japan.

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Submitted by annpake on Mon, 2018-12-17 00:11.

From Britain At War

Staff Sergeant Samuel Brown 822236 served in Pill Box 25 with 8th Coast Regiment Royal Artllery 25 which was ordered to surrender on Christmas night 1941.

From Allied Prisoners of War

Samuel Brown born 4 October 1914 Jarrow on Tyne Northumberland son of David and Elizabeth Brown

From the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Staff Sergeant BROWN Samuel Service Number 822236

Died 14/02/1944 Aged 30 8 Coast Regt. Royal Artillery

Son of David and Elizabeth Brown, of Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Burial: Yokohama War Cemetery

Headstone inscription: Memory is a garden that has many beautiful flowers