14th Hussars

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EDWARD DOUGLAS BROWN  (Major)  (Now Lieut. –Colonel Edward Douglas Brown-Synge-Hutchinson)  14^th Hussars             On October 13^th 1900, at Geluk, where Private Heaton gained the Victoria Cross so gallantly in the previous August, the Enemy got within 400 yards of our men, opening a heavy fire onthem.  Sergeant Hersey’s horse had been shot, leaving him in imminent danger of sharing the same fate, which he would almost certainly have done but for Major Brown, who, waiting till the last squadron had retired, rode back, and assisting him to mount behind, brought him safely out of range of the Boers.  Shortly afterwards this brave officer also saved the life of Lieutenant J. G. Browne, by holding his horse when it had become almost unmanageable owing to the heavy fireconcentarted on it and its rider, and, but for Major Brown’s assistance, it could not have been monted.  Subsequently, Lance-Corporal Trumpeter Leigh owed his life to the conspicuous daring of this officer, who carried him out of action, thus making the third he had save that day. Major Brown, son of the late Major David Philip Brown, 7^th Hussars, was born on March 6^th 1861.  Was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Windermere College, United Service College, and Westward Ho!  He received his first commission as Lieutenant in the 18^th Husars, November 1883, in which he became Captain in less than five years August 8^th 1888 and in his present regiment March 1889.  From January 1^st 1890, to December 31^st 1894, was Commandant of the Aldershot School of Instruction for Yeomanry, attaining the rank of Major and Brevet-Lieut. –Colonel on January 28^th 1899.  Mentioned three times in despatches during the Boer War, and has seven clasps to his medal for South Africa.