Browne, Henry Alfred Ford

BROWNE,

HENRY ALFRED FORD

BORN 9 FEBRUARY 1884

Henry Alfred Browne was

born in Bristol on 9 February 1884, son of Alfred Browne an accountant (b 1862 in Bristol) and wife Lydia Browne (b 1861 in Bedminster, Bristol).

By 1891 Henry was living with his mother and father and sister Hilda L (b 1886 in Bristol), in Montrose Avenue, Westbury on Trym Bristol.

Henry entered the School on 19 September 1894, aged 10, at which time his father was an Insurance agent and the family lived at 142, Whiteladies Road.

Alfred and Lydia had two further children, Ivy (b 1898 in Redland, Bristol) and Ivor (b 1901 in Bishopston, Bristol).

Henry left the School on 4 February 1897, a few days before his 13th birthday.

The 1911 census shows Henry is now an Able Bodied Seaman in the Royal Navy, living at 49 Paul Street, Kingsdown, Bristol, with his widowed mother, Ivy and Ivor.

In 1912 Henry married Norah Weeks. His war service is dated from 30 August 1914 and he was a Private in the Coldstream Guards, 1st Battalion, at the time of his death.

Serving in Flanders, most likely in the Battle of Mons and first battle of Ypres, he was taken prisoner of war and died on 15 July 1915.

His Commonwealth War Grave is in the Pila P.O.W. Cemetery Memorial 1, Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery. Poznan is in Poland, 320 km west of Berlin.

Henry’s next of kin were his mother Lydia and his wife Norah, of 8 Ruskin Grove, Horfield, Bristol.

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