Private Ernest Browne

Army Number: 6550

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born at Sneinton, Nottingham and lived at Newport, Isle of White. Husband of Martha Brown. He enlisted at Ripley, Derbyshire and went to France on 28th November 1914 (1st or 2nd Battalion) He was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, during the attack on the German positions near Ovillers, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

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

Thiepval Memorial, France.

Private Ernest Browne is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Newport War Memorial, Isle of White.