Montague Bernard Browne
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Montague was born on 2nd June 1876 at Framsden, Suffolk, and was the son of Mary Browne and the Reverend Samuel Benjamin Browne. He was the brother of Mary, Eleanor, Percival Leathley and Harriet Browne. In 1891 they lived at The Rectory, Plumtree, Nottinghamshire. Mary Browne later moved to Rutland House North Collingham Nottinghamshire. His probate was proven at Nottingham on 29th August 1916 and shows him as Montague Bernard Brown of South Collingham, Nottinghamshire, second lieutenant of H.M. Army died 28th April 1916 at Dublin, administration awarded to Mary Althea Macaulay and Eleanor Dorothy Browne. Effects £9422 12 shillings and 10 pence.His younger brother, Captain Percival Leathley Browne, Lincolnshire Regiment, was killed in action in Gallipoli on 9 August 1915. In the 1911 census he is 34 years of age and single and is a brewer lodging with Mary Bamber a housekeeper at 45 Park Ave, Swinton.
He enlisted as a private with service number 17271 in the Sherwood Rangers and became a second lieutenant with the Sherwood Foresters on 15th July 1915. He died of wounds in hospital on 26th April 1916, aged 39 years, from wounds he received when attempting to cross Mount Street, Dublin to attack Clanwilliam House Dublin during the Irish Rebellion of 1916. He is buried in Dean's Grange Cemetery, County Dublin, Ireland (grave ref SW. T1. 85) Was one of 31 men of the Sherwood Foresters who was killed in the Irish Rebellion 1916.
Nottingham Evening Post, Monday 1 May 1916: ‘Sherwood Foresters’ Heavy Losses. Four officers killed, fourteen wounded. The latest official list of casualties issued from Dublin includes the names of a number of officers belonging to the Sherwood Foresters who have laid down their lives or been wounded in action in Ireland during the past week. Most of them are members of well-known Nottingham families ... No fewer than 14 Sherwood Foresters are officially reported as wounded, but in no case have the relatives been informed as to the nature of the injuries which have been received … Second-Lieut MB Browne is the eldest son of Mrs Browne of South Collingham, and of the late Rev SB Browne, late rector of Plumtree. His younger brother, Captain Percy Browne, of the Lincolns, was killed in France, August 1915.' (Source: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)Mansfield Reporter and Sutton Times 12th May 1916 :- “DIED OF WOUNDS. “Second-Lient Montague Bernard Browne, who has died of wounds in hospital in Dublin, was the elder son of the Rev. S. B. Browne, of Plumtree, and Mrs. Browne, of Collingham. Born in 1876, he was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree in 1897. He then went into the brewing business, starting with Messrs. James Hole and Co., of Newark, and at the outbreak of the war he was second brewer at the Nottingham Brewery. He enlisted in the Sherwood Foresters in September, 1914, and was given a commission in July last. His only brother, Captain P. L. Browne, of the Lincolnshire Regiment, was killed in action in Gallipoli last year.” (Source: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)Nottingham Evening Post – Thursday 18 May 1916: ‘At the Nottingham City Council today letters were read from: Mr GH Perry, Mr GH Perry jun, and Mrs SV Brown [Browne] thanking the Council for the resolutions of sympathy passed with them upon the deaths in Ireland of Lieut. Percy Perry and Lieut. MB Brown [Montague Bernard Browne, SF]. Mrs Brown [Browne] remarked that she was proud to think the Notts. Regiments had done so well for their King and country.’ (Source: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)WMA27269 - memorial in St Mary the Virgin, Plumtree: 'To the memory of Montague Bernard Browne, 2nd Lieut. Sherwood Foresters who died in hospital April 28th (sic) 1916 from wounds received in action in Dublin on April 26th during the Irish Rebellion. Aged 39. Elder son of the late Reverend S. B. Browne. "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God"'.
