Major John Hall-Brown

Army Number: n/a formerly Major Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps.

Battalion: 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Son of John and Elizabeth Hall Brown; Husband of Dorothea Spelman Hall Brown. Went to Egypt on 17th November 1914. He joined the 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, on 31st December 1915 from No. 6 Entrenching Battalion and was second in command. Killed in action, 7th July 1916, aged 45, in the attack on Quadrangle Support near Contalmaison, France during the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, France. Special Memorial 11

Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, France.
Major John Hall-Brown grave