Lieutenant Frank Russell-Brown, 1st Battalion the Royal Munster Fusiliers. He was the eldest son of Colonel Francis David Millet Brown VC, ISC, late 101st (Royal Munster) Fusiliers and Jessie Rhind Brown (nee Russell). He was educated at Haileybury College, Hertfordshire. Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Royal Munster Fusiliers in Dec 1892. He was promoted to Lieutenant in Aug 1895. He married in Aug 1899, Kathleen, second daughter of D Colquhoun. He was deployed to South Africa for the Second Anglo Boer War and was first employed at Cape Town, but in reply to several applications he had made to join the army of Field Marshal Earl Roberts, in active operations (his father had served under Earl Roberts's father), he joined the Mounted Infantry and took part in the advance from the Modder River to Bloemfontein. He was wounded in action near the Bloemfontein Waterworks/Sannas Post on 30 Mar 1900, his first battle. He died of his wounds in Bloemfontein on 4 Apr 1900. He was buried on 5 Apr 1902. He is also commemorated on the Royal Munster Fusiliers war memorial in Muckross Road, near junction with East Avenue Road, Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland (see: http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/Memorials-Detail?memoId=94), on the Haileybury College Boer War memorial at Haileybury College, London Road, Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/271070) and on a Boer War memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
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Lieutenant Frank Russell-Brown, 1st Battalion the Royal Munster Fusiliers. He was the eldest son of Colonel Francis David Millet Brown VC, ISC, late 101st (Royal Munster) Fusiliers and Jessie Rhind Brown (nee Russell). He was educated at Haileybury College, Hertfordshire. Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Royal Munster Fusiliers in Dec 1892. He was promoted to Lieutenant in Aug 1895. He married in Aug 1899, Kathleen, second daughter of D Colquhoun. He was deployed to South Africa for the Second Anglo Boer War and was first employed at Cape Town, but in reply to several applications he had made to join the army of Field Marshal Earl Roberts, in active operations (his father had served under Earl Roberts's father), he joined the Mounted Infantry and took part in the advance from the Modder River to Bloemfontein. He was wounded in action near the Bloemfontein Waterworks/Sannas Post on 30 Mar 1900, his first battle. He died of his wounds in Bloemfontein on 4 Apr 1900. He was buried on 5 Apr 1902. He is also commemorated on the Royal Munster Fusiliers war memorial in Muckross Road, near junction with East Avenue Road, Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland (see: http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/Memorials-Detail?memoId=94), on the Haileybury College Boer War memorial at Haileybury College, London Road, Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/271070) and on a Boer War memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
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