Second Lieutenant William Leonard Brown

Army Number: n/a

Battalion: 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born 29th September 1891 at Buxton, Derbyshire.  Son of Major Abraham Brown and Lucie Brown, of 20, Hardwick Street, Buxton, Derbyshire. He was educated at Homeleigh School, Buxton and Shrewsbury School. He was a Solicitor prior to being gazetted Second Lieutenant Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, October 1914. He went to France in June 1915 where he acted as a brigade intelligence officer. He joined the 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment at Sanctuary Wood Belgium and was killed in action, 25th September 1915, aged 23, whilst serving in the trenches near Ouderdom Canal, near Ypres, Belgium. 

Buried : Reninghelst Churchyard Extension, Belgium. Grave 10.

Second Lieutenant William Leonard Brown is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
The Slopes Memorial, Buxton, Derbyshire.
St. John the Baptist Church War Memorial, Buxton, Derbyshire.
Homeleigh School War Memorial, St John the Baptist Church, Buxton, Derbyshire. 
Shrewsbury  School Chapel War Memorial, Shrewsbury. 

His brother Lieutenant Cecil Arthur Brown, 6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.