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4th Engineer Officer. Hubert Cowley Brown
Mercantile Marine SS Dunrobin
from:Jarrow
(d.24th Nov 1917)
Hubert Cowley Brown served as the 4th Engineer Officer on the SS Dunrobin (Newcastle). He was 21 years old when he died on 24th November 1917.
Son of George Cowley Brown and Elizabeth Brown (nee Ruddick) of 16 St. Paul's Road Jarrow, he was born in Jarrow. On the 1911 census he is recorded as Hubert Cowley Brown age 15 Junior Clerk (Timekeeper) in Shipyard is with his parents George Cowley and Elizabeth Brown and family at 16 St. Paul's Road, Jarrow.
Hubert is remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial.
He was commemorated on the Triptych (left panel) in St. Mark's Church Jarrow (it is no longer a Church)