Lance Corporal Fred Brothwell

Army Number: 265544 (formerly 2547)

Battalion: 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal Born and lived in Nottingham. Son of William and Alive Mary Brothwell, of 6 Mornington Street, Nottingham. He worked in an insurance office prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France on 28th June 1915 and died of wounds, 18th May 1918, aged 23. as a prisoner of war.

Buried : Braine-Le-Comte Communal Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 1. Row B. Grave 3.

Braine-Le-Comte Communal Cemetery, Belgium.

Lance Corporal Fred Brothwell grave — Photographs of cemetery and grave kindly supplied by Danielle Roubroeks.

Lance Corporal Fred Brothwell is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Andrew’s Church War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private Will Dexter Brothwell, 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.