Name
Harold J Brown
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant.
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St John's Church Memorial, Watford (*1)
Pre War
There is a Harold BROWN, Sergeant, 2nd Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment, but no further information for him is forthcoming.
This Harold was the son of William and Florence (nee INGLETON) BROWN; husband of Sybil Constance (nee BERRY) BROWN.
His parents married 13 October 1892 at St Mary’s, Watford. Florence died 1945 in Watford aged 77, and was buried 13 October in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; William died 1956 in Watford aged 86, and was buried 3 September, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Harold was born 1892 in Watford, and baptised 1 February 1983 at St Andrew’s, Watford. He married 29 May 1915 at St Andrew’s, Watford. No death has been found for Harold; Sybil died 1972 in the Waltham Forest, Essex, district aged 80.
There is a Marriage announcement for Harold in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 12 June 1915.
On the 1901 Census, aged 8 he lived in Aldenham, Herts, with his parents and no siblings. On the 1911 Census, aged 18 of no occupation, he lived in Watford, with his parents and one sibling.
Wartime Service
There is no trace of a Harold J BROWN in the usual military sources.
Additional Information
Not found in CWGC records. *1 There is an H Brown listed in the Watford Roll of Honour and an Horace J Brown on the St John's Church Memorial, Watford, because of the difference in the initials we have listed them separately but it is possible they are one and the same man.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
