Richard Brown died of illness on this day in 1916

Richard was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, 8 April 1882, he was the eldest of three children by Richard Brown MG Deputy Inspector-General RN (Ret) and Jessie Brown (née McPherson). He was educated at Aberdeen University from where he graduated in 1903. He was subsequently in practice at Portsmouth.

Richard married at St Philips, Buckingham Palace Road, London on 23 November 1910 to Ruth (née Noble born 1887, Hayton, Cumberland), third daughter of R. K. Noble of Scotby, Cumberland.

After their marriage they lived at ‘Hollywell’, 41 Kingston Crescent, Landport, Portsmouth with a live-in domestic servant.

Volunteering at the outbreak of war in August 1914. Dr. Richard Brown was appointed a Civil Surgeon at the Alexandra Hospital, Cosham

Obtaining a commission as Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps, 29 March 1915 Dr Brown served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles from July when he was sent out with the 14th Casualty Clearing Station, attached to the 11th Division.

He took part in the landing at Suvla Bay 6 August and in the engagements that followed he attend to the wounded for 44 consecutive hours, exposed to continuous shelling from the Turkish batteries. He served at Suvla for three months.

Dr Brown died after undergoing an operation at the 5th Southern General Hospital in Portsmouth, the operation having been necessitated by dysentery contracted while on active service on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The funeral took place at Portsdown Cemetery with a cortege from Alexandra Hospital.

After her husband's death Ruth went on to become a nurse at Graylingwell War Hospital, Chichester

Lieut. Richard Gavin Brown, Royal Army Medical Corps