Private William Charles Brown

Army Number: 2867

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

Husband of Florence Brown, of 24, Warkworth Street, Backworth, Newcastle-On-Tyne. Son of Charles William and Anne Brown, of 29 Private Yard, Beeston, Nottinghamshire. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting 26th October 1908 at Nottingham.  He served in Gallipoli from the 15th of September 1915.  He went to France 28th June 1916. He died of wounds, 28th September 1916, aged 25, at No. 3 Casualty Clearing Station, Puchevillers, France. 

Buried : Puchevillers British Cemetery, France. Plot 4. Row E. Grave 35.

Private William Charles Brown is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. John the Baptist Church War Memorial, Beeston, Nottinghamshire. 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.