Date of Birth
13 May 1883
College
Borough Road College
Job(s)
Teacher at Islington N., Station Road School, Highbury
Service number
Unknown
WW1 rank
Private
Royal Fusiliers
Lieutenant
Machine Gun Corps, 38th “C” Battalion
Theatre of war
Europe
Date of death
14 May 1918
Buried/memorial
Mont Huon Military Cemetery, Le Teport, France (Grave/Memorial reference: V.G.1
Biography
Lieutenant Louis Foster Brown spent two years at Borough Road College before gaining a BA. He became a public school teacher, and is listed as being destined for a school in Highbury. He joined the war effort in September 1914 when he enlisted as a private in the Royal Fusiliers, later being commissioned into the Machine Gun Corps. He was 33 when he was wounded by a fragment of a gas shell on 10 May 1918 whilst getting his men under cover and died of wounds on 14 May 191
Sources
Entry on p.85 [Roll of Honour page], Mentioned on Framed Borough Road College Roll of Honour, Borough Road College 1901 applications, Secondary source information provided by Douglas Craik (taken from Commonwealth War Graves Commission), 1905 Annual Report