Major Robert Geoffrey Browne D.S.O. The Manchester Regiment Papers relating to Major Robert Geoffrey Browne D.S.O. The Manchester Regiment including: Distinguished Service Order parchment 26 August 1918; a Mentioned in Despatches certificate 15 April 1918; a commemorative scroll; letter from the War Office accompanying the British War & Victory Medals awarded to Major Browne; newspaper cutting (undated) from the Manchester Guardian reporting on the 1st Battalion, the Manchester Regiments part in the fighting at Givenchy in December 1914; newspaper cutting from the Manchester Guardian February 1 1915 reporting a meeting in Manchester addressed by Colonel James; a newspaper cutting from the Civil & Military Gazette March 1 1917 reporting on fighting in Mesopotamia (Iraq); copies of entries from 'Officers Died in the Great War' and the commonwealth War Graves website for Major Browne; and dog tags c1915-1921