Sergeant Howard Charlton Brown

Army Number: 17299

Battalion: 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Beeston, Nottingham. Son of Josiah Henry and Ellen Brown, of 29, Imperial Road, Beeston, Nottingham. He was a warehouse clerk and a Sunday School teacher at St. John the Baptist Church Beeston prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France on 14th July 1915 and was Killed in action, 21st March 1918, aged 24, whilst holding the line near Noreuil, France on the opening day of the German Spring Offensive or (Kaiserschlact)

Commemorated: Arras Memorial, France. Bay 7.

Sergeant Howard Charlton Brown is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. John the Baptist Church War Memorial, Beeston, Nottingham.
St. John the Baptist Church Sunday School War Memorial, Beeston, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.