One of the joys of family history is an afternoon spent ambling around a country graveyard contemplating the epitaphs, followed by a nose about inside its church reading the memorials to the parish worthies. When Stephen Browness overcame an impasse on his tree to uncover the military service of his 3x great grandfather John Browness, he was determined that he should be commemorated somehow. And that's precisely what he did.
PASSING THE BATON
“I started researching my family history when I was in my early teens and I'm 71 now,” says Stephen, who lives in Whittlesey, Peterborough. It was his great aunt Daisy who ignited his interest. “She had known my great grandfather, George Robert Browness, a soldier in the 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers, who had fought in the Anglo-Ashanti Wars and served in India and Burma.”
Stephen spent much of his time at what was then the
