Lance Corporal David Brown

Army Number: 103493 (formerly 29843 Bedfordshire Regiment)

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

Husband of Lilly Albina Brown, of Bedmond, King’s Langley, Hertfordshire. He was a farmhand prior to enlisting 25th November 1915 at Watford. He went to France on 25th September 1916 and suffered gunshot wounds to his left foot during May 1917 and shrapnel wounds to his face on 18th October 1917.  He was transferred to England and was treated at Temple Road Military Hospital, Birkenhead, from 2nd November 1917 until 23rd November 1917. He was transferred to the 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 7th April 1918 and returned to France. He was killed in action, 20th October 1918, during the attack on the German positions near the River Selle, France.

Buried : Neuvilly Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Row B. Grave 32.

Lance Corporal David Brown is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Abbots Langley War Memorial, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire. 
St. Lawrence the Martyr Church War Memorial, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire.