Private Percy Brown

Army Number: 60323

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

Born and lived at Nottingham. Son of William and Lizzie Brown, of 9, Saxon Place, Alfred Street, Nottingham. He enlisted at Nottingham and was killed in action, 13th February 1917, aged 19, whilst in the line near Beauleuz Wood, France.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private Percy Brown is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Andrew’s Church War Memorial, Nottingham. 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private John William Brown, 2/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.