Name
Herbert Charles V Brown
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/03/1918
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
15663
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 28 and 29.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Stanstead Abbotts Village Memorial, Not on the Great Amwell memorials.
Pre War
Born in 1887 in Amwell (presumed Great Amwell), one of 11 children, and lived at Amwell Magna Fisheries in 1901 with parents Arthur and Emily and 7of his brothers and sisters. In the 1911 census he was still living with his family in Cats Hill, Stanstead Abbotts and worked locally as a domestic groom.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment as part of the 90th Brigade and was sent to France. At the beginning of 1918 there were a number of changes and the 7th became part of the 54th Brigade. On 21/03/1918 at the start of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, the 7th Bedfords were engaged in heavy fighting near St Quentin and the Crozat canal and the battalion was forced to fall back, and it was during this time that Herbert was killed in action. His body was not recovered.
Acknowledgments
Terry Collins
