Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
Robert Kingston Brown was born in 1889 in Ketton, Rutland, in April 1891 he was residing at 64, All Saints Road, Leicester, being the family home of his uncle, Samuel G. Easingwood a brewer born 1870 in Wisbech, Cambs., and his wife Ada, born 1870 in Rutland. In March 1901 Robert was residing at High Street, Ketton, Rutland, being the family home of his paternal grandparents, Mark Brown a stone quarry man, born 1837 in Kingscliffe, Northants., and his wife Eliza, born 1840 in Ketton, Rutland, also residing in the family home were his paternal uncle Alfred Brown, born 1878 in Ketton, Rutland and his paternal aunt, Lillie E. Brown, born 1885 in Ketton, Rutland. In April 1911 Robert was serving as a Private with the 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment and was stationed at Kirkee, India. On the outbreak of hostilities he was a reservist having served for eight years, seven of them in India. Having rejoined his regiment he embarked for France on the 5th August 1914 and was in the Retreat from Mons and the Battle of the Marne, when the 1st Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment lost terribly by invisibly quick firing batteries shrouded by the woods which flanked the river. He also fought on the Aisne and in the La Bassee-Armentieres operations, when his regiment with the Royal Fusiliers carried the village of Herlies, north east of La Bassee at the point of the bayonet, and again at the first Battle of Ypres, where on the road between Kemmel and Wytschaete, the Lincolnshire Regiment were surprised by the Germans and only just extricated themselves from a perilous position after the loss of 16 officers and 400 men. It was here that on the 1st November 1914 he was wounded and subsequently invalided home. Upon his recoverey he embarked for India, and it was here that he died of influenza at Abbottabad.