Notes
Michael Granville Brown was born in Wandsworth on 29 April 1921 to South African parents. He was adopted and raised by Ethel Pickersgill-Cunliffe and educated at Chelmsford Hall and Eastbourne College from 1935 to 1939, where he was appointed a House Captain.
In October 1939 Michael Brown matriculated at Worcester College to study history, but left the College in early 1941 for military service. He attended an Officer Cadet Training Unit before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own) on 19 July 1941. He transferred to the Somerset Light Infantry with the rank of Lieutenant on 3 April 1943 and was subsequently attached to the 1st Battalion Gambia Regiment, joining them in the field in June 1943.
On the night of the 26/27 March 1944, Lieutenant Michael Brown was killed in action while on patrol in the area of Aungya, Burma [now Myanmar]. He was 22 years old.
Michael Brown is commemorated on the Rangoon Memorial, and on the war memorials of Eastbourne College, and Worcester College, Oxford.