Charles Alex Brown


1942

Agriculture

Attended Clemson during 1938-1940 school years

Starr (Flat Rock Community), SC

Wife: The former Nell Acker of Anderson.  He was also survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Wesley Brown of Anderson, and 2 brothers, Staff Sergeant James Wesley Brown, Jr. and Private George S. Brown.  Also 5 sisters, Mrs. Horace McAlister of Anderson, Mrs. Robert Acker of Anderson, Mrs. George Schrimpf of Abbeville, and Misses Beulah and Hazel Brown, who live with their parents. 

Army, Sergeant

Company B, 33rd Engineer Battalion, 7th Armored Division

Purple Heart

Dec 2, 1919

Dec 22, 1944

Killed in Action - Belgium (Neundorf)

Henri-Chapelle AMC, Plot H, Row 3, Grave 15; Memorial marker at Flat Rock Presbyterian Cemetery, Anderson, SC

NE

Additional Information

Last Duty Location: Neundorf, Belgium VP 8387 to Beho, Belgium VP 7583 on December 22, 1944
MOS: 059 (Foreman, Construction)

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