Name
Frederick Thomas Brown
1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/02/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
25454
Northamptonshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
REGINA TRENCH CEMETERY, GRANDCOURT
V. A. 24.
France
Headstone Inscription
GOD BE WITH YOU TILL WE MEET AGAIN
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Sawbridgeworth Memorials,
Cheshunt Town Memorial,
Christ Church (formerly Holy Trinity Church) Memorial Waltham Cross
Pre War
Frederick Thomas Brown was born in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, in 1891, son of John Brown a, Groom and Eliza Brown (nee Mills). The youngest of two sons.
Baptised at St John the Baptist Church, Harlow, Essex, on 3rd May 1891.
1891 Census records Frederick aged 6 days old, living with his parents in Broadway, Harlow, Essex. His cousin Alice Brown (18) was living with the family. His elder brother Ronald (3) was staying with Henry and Fanny Brown on the night of the Census.
1901 Census, Frederick (10), brother Ronald (13) and his parents are now living at 3, Spring Cottages, Walton Road, Hoddesdon, Herts.
1911 Frederick (20), is working as a Clothes Presser, living with his parents, and brother Ronald (23), at, 6 Eleanor Cross Road, Cheshunt, Herts.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted at Cheshunt, Herts, on 12th December 1915, aged 24, he gave his address as, 43 Queens Road, Waltham Cross, Herts, posted to the army reserve on the same day. Mobilized for war service at Bedford, on 29th May 1916, posted to the 3rd Battalion, (A Depot/Training Unit) of the Northamptonshire Regiment, at Gillingham, Kent, with the service number 25454.
He sailed from Folkstone, Kent, for France on 14th September 1916, arriving the same day. He joined the 6th Battalion in the field on 30th September 1916, seeing action on the Western Front.
He was reported missing on 17th February 1917, presumed killed in action, during the Operations on the Ancre. (11th January to 13th March 1917).
Additional Information
His effects of £1-17s-3d, Pay Owing and a War Gratuity of £3, went to his mother Eliza Brown.
His headstone reads “God be with you till we meet again” as requested by his father.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
