Name
William Brown
10 January 1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/04/1917
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
17845
King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 11C and 12 A
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Codicote Village Memorial, Peace Memorial Hall, Codicote, Not on the Digswell memorials
Pre War
William Brown was born in Digswell, Herts, on 10 January 1891, the only son of Daniel and Emily Brown and baptised at St John's Church, Digswell on 12 January 1891.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at Digswell where his father was working as an Agricultural Labourer. By 1901 they had moved to Little Wymondley, Herts and moved again by the 1911 Census when they were living at Rabley Heath, Welwyn, Herts, at which time William was working as a Brick Moulder.
His parents later lived at 2 Council Cottages, Nup End, Knebworth, Herts.
Wartime Service
William enlisted at Wakefield on 13 September 1914 and arrived in France on 11 September 1915.
According to an article in the Hertfordshire Express reporting his death he was wrongly reported as having been wounded on 27 September 1915 but was wounded on 1 July 1916.
William was killed in action on 14 April 1917. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £12 and pay owing of £20 14s 4d. No pension appears to have been payable.
Acknowledgments
Derry Warners, Brenda Palmer
Brenda Palmer, June Colegrove, Roll-of-Honour.com
