Name
Reginald William George Brown
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/05/1918
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
34225
Wiltshire Regiment
1st Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SOISSONS MEMORIAL
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials (*1)
Pre War
Son of Robert and Mary Ann (nee DUMPER) BROWN of Alton, Hants; husband of Edith Elizabeth (nee POCOCK) BROWN of Watford.
His parents married 3 June 1879 in Hampreston, Dorset.
Reginald was born 1882 in Tatworth, Somerset, and baptised 16 April 1882 in Tatworth. He married 14 September 1911 in Berkhamsted, Herts; and resided in East Leigh. Edith never remarried, and died 6 July 1954 in Watford aged 65.
On the 1891 Census, aged 9 he lived in Litton Cheney, Dorset, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1901 Census, he is proving elusive. On the 1911 Census, a photographer aged 29, he was a boarder in Berkhamsted.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Southampton; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was presumed killed in action. Unfortunately, Reginald’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
There is a brief article about Reginald in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 6 July 1918.
Biography
Additional Information
*1 Although currently recorded against Watford, the only connection fount so far is that his wife came from there, so it may be that Reginald does not have a direct connection.
