Private Sidney Brown

Army Number: 18554

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

Born and lived at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Son of Samuel and Elizabeth Brown, of 127, The Rock, Ratcliffe Gate, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He was a shop assistant prior to enlisting at Mansfield. He went to France 22nd June 1915 and was killed in action, 15th September 1916, aged 21, in the attack at Guillemont, France, during the Battle of the Somme

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

Private Sidney Brown is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Peter’s Church War Memorial, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.