WWII
FIRST SPECIAL SERVICE FORCE
1st Company - 3rd Regiment
Enlisted for service in March 1943.
Frank Brown was wounded in Italy in November 1943 and spent four months in a military hospital.
Frank Brown was killed in action in southern France while serving with the First Special Service Force.
Buried in France, Private Brown's remains were repatriated back to the United States and he was re-interred on 24 April 1948 in the family's plot.
In July 2013, the Congressional Gold Medal was awarded, collectively, to the First Special Service Force, in recognition of its superior service during World War II.
On February 3, 2015 surviving FSSF Veterans were in Washington DC to accept this momentous recognition on behalf of their fellow Forcemen who could not be there.
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U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #31303343
Frank S. Brown, Jr. is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Bristol County, Massachusetts.
***I would like to thank L Beacon Find A Grave ID 46921308 for creating this memorial***
***I would like to thank Jim Anderson Find A Grave ID 47807722 for adding his gravesite photos to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Jim Cumiskey Find A Grave ID 48500196 for adding his photos to this memorial***
WWII
FIRST SPECIAL SERVICE FORCE
1st Company - 3rd Regiment
Enlisted for service in March 1943.
Frank Brown was wounded in Italy in November 1943 and spent four months in a military hospital.
Frank Brown was killed in action in southern France while serving with the First Special Service Force.
Buried in France, Private Brown's remains were repatriated back to the United States and he was re-interred on 24 April 1948 in the family's plot.
In July 2013, the Congressional Gold Medal was awarded, collectively, to the First Special Service Force, in recognition of its superior service during World War II.
On February 3, 2015 surviving FSSF Veterans were in Washington DC to accept this momentous recognition on behalf of their fellow Forcemen who could not be there.
************************************************
U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #31303343
Frank S. Brown, Jr. is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Bristol County, Massachusetts.
***I would like to thank L Beacon Find A Grave ID 46921308 for creating this memorial***
***I would like to thank Jim Anderson Find A Grave ID 47807722 for adding his gravesite photos to this memorial***
***I would like to thank Jim Cumiskey Find A Grave ID 48500196 for adding his photos to this memorial***
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