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Pte. John Teasdale Brown
British Army 3rd Liverpool Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry
from:8 Queens Avenue, Meols, Cheshire, CH47 0LU
John Teasdale Brown (My Father), pictured with his two brothers, was born on 16th April 1897 in Lymm, Cheshire and died in Widnes on 14th March 1978. He volunteered for 3rd Liverpool Lancashire Hussars on 4th November 1915 at the age of 18 and was posted to France on 8th April 1916. Details of his exact whereabouts are somewhat sketchy but he was wounded, we think at Ypres on or about 23rd September 1917.He was a lucky lad because the bullet pierced his left side upper tunic pocket but was diverted from there by the last cover of the diaries (see picture) that were in his pocket, shattering the bone the humorous, in his upper left arm, had it not been diverted it would in all probability have pierced his heart. This bone was later removed leaving no bone between the shoulder and the elbow. He was discharged on the 27th June 1919 and awarded The British War & Victory Medal together with a pension of four shillings per week (20 pence).
Before joining the army, Father worked in agriculture, but in spite of his injuries after he was discharged, he became an apprentice cabinet maker with an old Liverpool Company by the name of G H Morton Ltd of Bold Street, Liverpool, who did a lot of ship work on the Cruise Liners of that era together with making and selling furniture. With his knowledge of carpentry in particular and furniture in general he later joined a firm of Loss Adjusters working until he was seventy, relying solely on Public Transport.
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