Captain Ernest Brown

Army Number: n/a (formerly C.S.M. 6953 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment)

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Husband of Ada Brown, of 5, Daybrook Street, Sherwood, Nottingham. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 13th December 1915 and joined the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 12th January 1916.  He was wounded at Arrow Head Copse, Guillemont, 13th September 1916 and was promoted Lieutenant 24th April 1917, Garrison Major and Adjutant at Loos, 26th April 1917. He was killed in action on, 20th November 1917, aged 35, in the attack on the German positions near Beaucamp, near Ribecourt. 

Buried : Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Plouich, France. Plot 4. Row H. Grave 11.

Captain Ernest Brown is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.