Private Andrew Brown

Army Number : 306253

Battalion : 2/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Newark, Nottinghamshire. Son of John James and Mary Ann Brown, of 9, Rowbotham Row, Water Lane, Newark. Husband of Eliza Brown, of 7 Water Lane, Newark. He was a maltster prior to enlisting at Newark. He served in Dublin during the Irish Rebellion of 1916 and went to France in February 1917 and was killed in action, 25th June 1917, by shellfire whilst serving in the line a Havrincourt, France. 

Buried : Metz-En-Couture Communal Cemetery British Extension, France. Plot 1. Row C. Grave 2.

Private Andrew Brown is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Mary’s Church Borough of Newark Roll of Honour, Newark, Nottinghamshire. 
St. Leonard’s Church War Memorial, Newark, Nottinghamshire. 
Newark Cemetery War Memorial, Newark, Nottinghamshire. 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.