Private Wilfred Brown

Army Number: 305841

Battalion: 2/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Shireoaks, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Son of William and Hannah Brown, of The Poplars, Shireoaks, Worksop. He was a coal miner at Shireoaks Colliery prior to enlisting 30th October 1914 at Worksop. He was killed in action, 26th September 1917, age 32, during the attack at St. Julian, near Ypres, Belgium. 

Commemorated : Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A.

Private Wilfred Brown is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Lukes Church War Memorial, Shireoaks, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary and St. Cuthberts Priory War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. 
Worksop War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.