Private Thomas Brown

Army Number: 18391

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

Born and lived at Longton, Staffordshire. Son of John and Priscilla Brown; Husband of Mary Jane Brown, of 3, Uncle Tom’s Row, Normacot, Longton, Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire. He enlisted at Longton and went to France on 22nd June 1915. He was killed in action, 9th August 1915, age 22, in the attack on the German positions near Sanctuary Wood, near Ypres, Belgium. 

Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.

Private Thomas Brown is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Longton War Memorial, Longton Park, Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire.