LATE BRIGADIER-GENERAL BROWN

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3108, 12 June 1917, Page 5

LATE BRIGADIER-GENERAL BROWN

•v AN APPRECIATION. (By a Brother Officer.) death-killed m action-was reported yesterday) was one of the best-loved men in the New Zealand Division. Whether one know him as major, colonel, or general, ne was always tho same. Nothing spoiled vl Jtl \ as one o£ Natu re'e gentlemen. V. ot . ™ at ne wasn't firm and a good disciplinarian. He was. At Cairo he was tho Assistant Provost Marshal, aiid sometimes only his tact and knowledge of the colonial nature stood between dire trouble and peace and order. He was :i luodel Provost Marshal, and no one will ever realise how human he was in dealing with tho dolinquonta at Bal-el-Hadid. The Bimbashi in charge of the Egyptian Police always eent for Browji when trouble was on the horizon. On the Peninsula he did very solid work, but lie always cliafed in an administrative job, and how delimited he waa when he was Riven tho command of the Canterbury Infantry Regiment. And it was at Quinn'e Post, in tho very front trenches of that awful hell upon earth, that Lieut.-Colonel Brown got his eleven bomb wounds. Tie was sent to England and there operation after operation was performed on him. He limped tip to see me the day before we both had to go to Buckingham Palace. We talked about many things—the "Scarab" Club, the old Maungamii, and what uniform we should wear. Poor old Brown was modesty personified, .iTid he stipulated that whatever wo wore it must not be eloucli hate, for at that time "Anzac" was on everybody's lips, and ono only had to be seen linipin<; on the street and next day the halfpenny Press would have a nice picture of a "glorious Anzac." Through Brown's advice wo successfully eluded the battery of cameras, and the waiting crowd was denied the pleasure of seoing the slouch hats. The leg was a long tiino Retting better, and the colonel was advised to lake an easy billet at Home, but that did not appeal to hie idea of wildierine, and lie fretted fo set: back to tho division. .And now ho has fallen in what was evidently a frreat success for our own division—the Rattle.of Messines. This is part of the nrice wo innsfc pay. lnit wp cin say with T.aurcnce Binyon of "The Fallen": They shall not grow old as we that aro left grow old, Ago shall not weary them nor the years condemn.' At the going down of (ho sun and in the morning We will remember them. No one who camo in contact with Charles. Jeffries Brown will ever forgot him, and the sympathy of every soldier goes to hie wife and family in their frreat personal loss; bat tho cxainplo of devotion to duty and the verv Irish ideals lie entertained as a soldier must always remain a very cherished possession to his family and to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. MOTION OF SYMPATHY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. j Grcymouth, Juno 11. 'At tho send-off to a . draft of tuiinclIrjs to-night, u motion of sincere sympathy was passed, on the motion of tho Mayor, wij.h Uip. widow and relatives of the late Brigndier-Genornl Brown, who was well-known and highly respected on the Coast, especially among tho mining community.