- Date Of Birth: April 30, 1926
- Date Of Death: January 27, 2013
- State: Georgia
Lloyd Brown, 86, peacefully went home on Sunday, January 27, 2013 after an extended illness. Proud of his family’s soldiering since the Revolutionary War, he enlisted April 30, 1946, on his eighteenth birthday, joining the 10th infantry H Company where he received his combat infantryman badge and three major campaign stars. Fighting as a machine gunner through the Ardennes, numerous Rhineland crossings, Austria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, he also fought as part of Patton’s Fifth Infantry during the “Battle of the Bulge,” receiving a ‘meritorious unit, several expert, and award citations. In Austria, Leland Bell of Clayton, Ga., he and two others captured thirty German soldiers when they was lost but convinced the high school English teacher they were surrounded, for which they were nominated for the Bronze Star. Mr. Brown worked in the Pentagon awaiting deployment to the Pacific when the war ended. His first cousin and best friend, C.L. Leigh, who also served under Patton, drove him back from Fort McPherson into civilian life, Carson-Newman College and a marriage to Audrey Christian, his high school sweetheart. Working for a decade at the U.S.
