Name
Owen Albert Brown
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/11/1918
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
16750
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
JOLIMETZ COMMUNAL CEMETERY
In North-West part.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Letchworth Town Memorial, Church of St Nicholas Memorial, Norton, Willian War Memorial
Pre War
Born at Arlesey, Beds. Son of William(*2) and Fanny Brown, of 2, Ridge Avenue, Letchworth, Herts.
Resident and enlisted in Letchworth.
Additional Information
Owe is also commemorated on the family headstone in Willian (All Saints) Churchyard. His part of the inscription reads:
ALSO OWEN A. BROWN FELL IN ACTION IN FRANCE NOV. 6TH(*1) 1918, AGED 25 YEARS.
SOME DAY SOME TIME OUR EYES SHALL SEE
THEIR FACES SO SWEET TO MEMORY.
SOME DAY WE’LL CLASP THEM BY THE HAND
OVER THE BETTER LAND.
*1 The CWGC records his age as 24 and his date of death one day earlier on the 5th November.
*2 The CWGC also gives his father as William, whereas the headstone confirms Baden W. Brown - the W could of course be William.
Acknowledgments
Dan Hill, Jonty Wild
