Harold Vernon Browne - St Mary - Iwerne Minster, Dorset - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

Brass plaque dedicated to Harold Vernon Browne who fell at Suvla Bay Gallipoli, 7th Sept 1915, located in St Mary's church, Iwerne Minster.

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In Proud and Loving memory of
HAROLD VERNON BROWNE
Captain Queens Own Dorset Yeomanry
who gave his life for his country Sept 7th
1915. Aged 30. He was killed whilst discharging
his duties as military landing officer at
Sulva Bay Gallipoli and is burried there.
Younger son of Leonard and Helen Browne
of Hoburne Hants. He had served in the
yeomanry in C Squadron since 1908
and was living at Preston House when
the Great War was declared.
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Still the memories held aloft as lamps
for hopes young fire to fill.
Shine and while the light of England lives
shall shine for England still.

"Harold Vernon Browne was born in 1885 in South Australia. He was the son of Leonard Gilbert Browne, described as living by his "own means", and Helen Mary Price. In 1908 he married Mabel Doris Tillard. They had four children: three boys and a girl. At the time of the 1911 Census, he was also living by his "own means" at Hoburne, Hampshire. He joined the Dorset Yeomanry (Queens Own) and at the time of his death held the rank of Captain. He served at Gallipoli and was awarded the Victory, British War and 1915 Star medals. On 7th September 1915 he was killed by a shell whilst discharging his duties as Military Landing Officer on "A" Beach, Suvla Bay. He was buried at Hill 10 Cemetery, Turkey (grave id. II.B.12) and is remembered on the Iwerne Minster War Memorial, Shaftesbury."

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"The landing at Suvla Bay was an amphibious landing made at Suvla on the Aegean coast of Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire as part of the August Offensive, the final British attempt to break the deadlock of the Battle of Gallipoli. The landing, which commenced on the night of 6 August 1915, was intended to support a breakout from the Anzac sector, five miles (8 km) to the south.

Despite facing only light opposition, the landing at Suvla was mismanaged from the outset and quickly reached the same stalemate conditions that prevailed on the Anzac and Helles fronts. On 15 August, after a week of indecision and inactivity, the British commander at Suvla, Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Stopford was dismissed. His performance in command is often considered one of the most incompetent feats of generalship of the First World War."

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