Gunner George Edward Browett, 32803
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- Unit - Royal Garrison Artillery
- Section - 7th Mountain Battery
- Date of Birth - 1891
- Died - 09/10/1918
- Age - 28
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ContributeSource: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland. He was the son of Frederick Browett a shepherd, born 1856 in Thorpe by Water, Rutland and his wife Eliza, born 1854 in Lyddington, Rutland. George Edward was born in 1891 in Belton, Rutland, his siblings were Ethel, born 1885, Emily, born 1887, Charles, born 1889, Frederick, born 1893, Harry, born 1896 and Elizabeth, born 1899, all his siblings were born in Belton, Rutland, in March 1901 the family home was at Belton, Rutland. In April 1911 George was serving as a Gunner with the Royal Garrison Artillery, 6th Mountain Battery, and was stationed at New Cantonements, Wellesley Barracks, Quetta, Baluch, India. Prior to his enlistment he was a horseman, he embarked for India on the 3rd March 1911, and whilst there he took part in the quelling of an uprising in Peshawar. He later moved to Salonika, where he died from pneumonia after contracting malaria. He was one of four brothers who served.
Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project. George had another younger sister, Catherine- she married Leonard Folwell of Woodhouse Eaves, a survivor of WWI.
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Submitted by M. Garfoot, 2019
- Conflict - World War I
- Burial Place - 585, Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamaria
- Unit - Royal Garrison Artillery
- Cause of death - DIED
- Burial Commemoration - Mikra British Cem., Salonika, Greece
- Born - Belton, Rutland
- Enlisted - 23/2/10 In Leicester
- Place of Residence - Belton, Rutland, England
- Memorial - BELTON MEM., RUTLAND