Private John William (Tuff) Brown

Army Number: 25228

Battalion: 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived in York. Husband of Emma Brown (Nee Richardson), of 8, Silver Street, Groves, York. He enlisted at York and was killed in action, 23rd August 1916, aged 38, whilst in Maltz Horn trench near Guillemont, France, during the Battle of the Somme. 

Buried : Serre Road Cemetery No.2, France. Plot 8. Row A. Grave 5.