Name
William Joseph Brown
1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/08/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
42950
Essex Regiment
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY
XVII. A. 9.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, Methodist Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford(*1), Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
William Joseph Brown was born in 1899 in Bishop's Stortford, the eldest son of Frederick John and Rose Alice Brown and baptised on 7 May 1899 at Holy Trinity Church, Bishop's Stortford.
On 1911 Census the family were living at 31 New Town Road, Bishop's Stortford, when he was a schoolboy.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Hertford initially into the Bedfordshire Regiment under reg. no. 10792 and later transferred to the Essex Regiment.
He was killed in action on 8 August 1918 during the Battle of Amiens.
Additional Information
War gratuity of £5 awarded to his mother Rose and pay owing of £4 7s 9d.
*1 A William Brown appears on the Bishop's Stortford Methodist Church Memorial but there are three William Browns associated with Bishop's Stortford: William John Brown, William Joseph Brown, and William Thomas Brown, so it is difficult to identfy which man is commemorated on this memorial. The first is established as an alias for Jeffery Ashwell, so it is unlikely to be him, so it it is most likely to be one of the ;latter two.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
