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Private Thomas Colin Browne

 

Number: 9625

Company: 45th (Dublin) Company, 13th Battalion, First Contingent

ENLISTMENT

Date: 30 December 1899

Place: Newbridge

Age: 22 years (born 4 May 1877)

Trade or calling: Brewer

Place of birth: In the Parish of Devonport, in or near the Town of Plymouth, in the County of Devonshire

Family: Single. Father Thomas Brown, retired Naval officer and Inspector General of Hospitals, mother Agnes Robertson Browne (nee Dall), of 6 Ardmore Terrace, Holywood, County Down.

Previous military service: No

Description: Height 5' 11 1/2". Complexion fair, eyes light brown, hair light brown.

Religion: Church of England

ACTIVE SERVICE

Date to South Africa: 13 March 1900

Date home: __

Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, 1901 clasps.

DISCHARGE

Date: 9 March 1901

Place: McKenzie's Farm, Cape Town

Reason for discharge: At his own request

Intended place of residence: Imperial Light Horse, South Africa

Conduct: Very good

Special qualifications: Brewer

 

Browne was the first man to enlist in the 45th (Dublin) Company.

He was among the 400 men captured by Boer forces at Lindley in May 1900. He was released on 30 August with the other members of the 13th Battalion when the British captured Nooitgedacht.

In an article published in The Irish Field on 6 April 1901 his name is included on a list of members of the 45th Company who took part in operations in the Orange Free State from late 1900 until the unit was disbanded on 4 March 1901, though it notes that he "broke his collar bone and was left at Clocolan at the end of December".

This page last updated 16 November 2025.