{"id":7562,"date":"2025-05-04T08:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T07:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7562"},"modified":"2025-05-04T08:07:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T07:07:03","slug":"brown-m-l-pte-74307-5th-durham-light-infantry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/brown-m-l-pte-74307-5th-durham-light-infantry\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown M L Pte 74307 5th Durham Light Infantry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7563\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brown-M-L-Pte-74307-5th-Durham-Light-Infantry-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7563\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7563\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brown-M-L-Pte-74307-5th-Durham-Light-Infantry-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brown-M-L-Pte-74307-5th-Durham-Light-Infantry-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brown-M-L-Pte-74307-5th-Durham-Light-Infantry-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5.jpg 603w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown M L Pte 74307 5th Durham Light Infantry<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BROWN, MABERLEY LENS, Private, No. 74307, 2\/5th (Territorial) Battn. The Durham Light Infantry, s. of Maberley Lens Brown, of 13, The Pavement, Ladywell; b. New Cross, London, S.E., 29 Jan. 1891; educ. Gordon Brock School, Brockley, S.E.: joined the Durham Light Infantry 17 Oct. 1916; served with the Salonika Army, and died at No. 50 General Hospital,\u00a0 Salonika, 16 Dec. 1918, of bronchial pneumonia, contracted while on active service. Buried there. His Commanding Officer wrote: . It was a sad blow to his company, and to all who knew him, and his loss is keenly felt. Even in the gladness of peace here there is a shadow caused by the absence of all those who, like your husband, so bravely fought and so generously gave their lives for their country.&#8221; He m. 4 Aug. 1912, Ada Catherine (31, Dalmain Road, Forest Hill, S.E.), dau. of Henry Nunham, of 3, Dal-main Road, Forest Hill, S.E., and had three sons: Henry George, b. 24 Feb. 1916; Frederick James, b. 1915, and Maberley Lens, b. 22 April, 1916.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROWN, MABERLEY LENS, Private, No. 74307, 2\/5th (Territorial) Battn. The Durham Light Infantry, s. of Maberley Lens Brown, of 13, The Pavement, Ladywell; b. New Cross, London, S.E., 29 Jan. 1891; educ. Gordon Brock School, Brockley, S.E.: joined the Durham Light Infantry 17 Oct. 1916; served with the Salonika Army, and died at No. 50 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-durham-light-infantry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7564,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562\/revisions\/7564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}