High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Albert John "Sailor" Brown (7 November 1915 27 December 2008) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward.Brown was born on 7 November 1915 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk and was educated at St Peter's and Priory School. He played for Great Yarmouth Town and Gorleston as a youth, before making a move to the Football League with Charlton Athletic in August 1934.