Private Sydney Brown

Army Number : 13419

Battalion : 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in Mexborough, Yorkshire. Son of William Henry Brown of The Horseshoes, Sleaford, Lincolnshire. He was a groom at Thoresby Hall, Ollerton, Nottinghamshire prior to enlisting 27th August 1914 at Worksop. He served at Gallipoli in 1915 and went to France on 28th June 1916. He was killed in action, 26th September 1916, whilst serving in the trenches near Ovillers, France during the Battle of the Somme.

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

Private Sydney Brown is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. John’s Church War Memorial Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire. 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.