Private Brown was a member of Company A, 116th Engineer Combat Battalion, U.S. Army. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in Korea on 5 May 1953. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.

Brown was awarded the Purple Heart, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.