Aberdeen Evening Express - Monday 04 January 1954, p 4:
GENERAL PERCY BROWN DEAD
A distinguished Gordon Highlander, Brigadier-General Percy W. Brown, Walton Park, Castle- Douglas, has died at the age of seventy-eight.
For over thirty years he served with several famous Scottish regiments, principally The Gordon Highlanders. It was to that regiment he went in 1896 from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He served with the Gordons in South Africa from 1899 to 1902 and was present at the relief of Ladysmith. During those operations he was mentioned in dispatches and received the Queen's Medal with four clasps and the King's Medal with two clasps.
In First World War
In the First World War he commanded several battalions of the Gordons, the 2nd Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the 71st Infantry Brigade. He was mentioned in dispatches, awarded the D.S.0., the C.M.G.. the Order of the Star of Rumania, and the French Croix de Guerre.
He retired in 1927 with the rank of Brigadier-General. He was also made member of the King’s Bodyguard for Scotland, the Royal Company of Archers.
He is survived by Mrs Brown and three sons, two of whom are at present serving in Malaya— Captain A.T.C. Brown with The Gordon Highlanders, and Lieut. J. J. G. Brown with the X1th Hussars. The other son, Captain D. H. W. Brown, is at present with The Gordon Highlanders' Depot, Gordon Barracks, Aberdeen. He too has served in Malaya.
GENERAL PERCY BROWN DEAD
A distinguished Gordon Highlander, Brigadier-General Percy W. Brown, Walton Park, Castle- Douglas, has died at the age of seventy-eight.
For over thirty years he served with several famous Scottish regiments, principally The Gordon Highlanders. It was to that regiment he went in 1896 from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He served with the Gordons in South Africa from 1899 to 1902 and was present at the relief of Ladysmith. During those operations he was mentioned in dispatches and received the Queen's Medal with four clasps and the King's Medal with two clasps.
In First World War
In the First World War he commanded several battalions of the Gordons, the 2nd Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the 71st Infantry Brigade. He was mentioned in dispatches, awarded the D.S.0., the C.M.G.. the Order of the Star of Rumania, and the French Croix de Guerre.
He retired in 1927 with the rank of Brigadier-General. He was also made member of the King’s Bodyguard for Scotland, the Royal Company of Archers.
He is survived by Mrs Brown and three sons, two of whom are at present serving in Malaya— Captain A.T.C. Brown with The Gordon Highlanders, and Lieut. J. J. G. Brown with the X1th Hussars. The other son, Captain D. H. W. Brown, is at present with The Gordon Highlanders' Depot, Gordon Barracks, Aberdeen. He too has served in Malaya.
Aberdeen Evening Express - Monday 04 January 1954, p 4:
GENERAL PERCY BROWN DEAD
A distinguished Gordon Highlander, Brigadier-General Percy W. Brown, Walton Park, Castle- Douglas, has died at the age of seventy-eight.
For over thirty years he served with several famous Scottish regiments, principally The Gordon Highlanders. It was to that regiment he went in 1896 from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He served with the Gordons in South Africa from 1899 to 1902 and was present at the relief of Ladysmith. During those operations he was mentioned in dispatches and received the Queen's Medal with four clasps and the King's Medal with two clasps.
In First World War
In the First World War he commanded several battalions of the Gordons, the 2nd Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the 71st Infantry Brigade. He was mentioned in dispatches, awarded the D.S.0., the C.M.G.. the Order of the Star of Rumania, and the French Croix de Guerre.
He retired in 1927 with the rank of Brigadier-General. He was also made member of the King’s Bodyguard for Scotland, the Royal Company of Archers.
He is survived by Mrs Brown and three sons, two of whom are at present serving in Malaya— Captain A.T.C. Brown with The Gordon Highlanders, and Lieut. J. J. G. Brown with the X1th Hussars. The other son, Captain D. H. W. Brown, is at present with The Gordon Highlanders' Depot, Gordon Barracks, Aberdeen. He too has served in Malaya.
GENERAL PERCY BROWN DEAD
A distinguished Gordon Highlander, Brigadier-General Percy W. Brown, Walton Park, Castle- Douglas, has died at the age of seventy-eight.
For over thirty years he served with several famous Scottish regiments, principally The Gordon Highlanders. It was to that regiment he went in 1896 from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He served with the Gordons in South Africa from 1899 to 1902 and was present at the relief of Ladysmith. During those operations he was mentioned in dispatches and received the Queen's Medal with four clasps and the King's Medal with two clasps.
In First World War
In the First World War he commanded several battalions of the Gordons, the 2nd Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the 71st Infantry Brigade. He was mentioned in dispatches, awarded the D.S.0., the C.M.G.. the Order of the Star of Rumania, and the French Croix de Guerre.
He retired in 1927 with the rank of Brigadier-General. He was also made member of the King’s Bodyguard for Scotland, the Royal Company of Archers.
He is survived by Mrs Brown and three sons, two of whom are at present serving in Malaya— Captain A.T.C. Brown with The Gordon Highlanders, and Lieut. J. J. G. Brown with the X1th Hussars. The other son, Captain D. H. W. Brown, is at present with The Gordon Highlanders' Depot, Gordon Barracks, Aberdeen. He too has served in Malaya.
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