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NAME: Browning, George Howard

RANK: Second Lieutenant

UNIT: East Lancashire Regiment (formerly 23186 Private 8th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment)

BATTALION ETC: 7th Battalion attached 1st Battalion

REGIMENTAL NUMBER:

HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH: Killed in action 13th March 1918

WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: St. Leger British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France

OTHER INFORMATION: Age 22. Commissioned 28th August 1917. Son of George Henry and Florence Browning of Fairthorn, Pookes Green, Marchwood, Southampton (CWGC). In 1911 family living at Manor Farm, Marchwood, Southampton. In book "Heres to the men of Alton" by Tony Sross is states on staff of Capital & Counties Bank, Alton, also a member of Alton Congregational Church.