Name
Arthur Brown
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/12/1917
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
96080
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
2nd/6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL
Panel 8.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Cambrie Memorial to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Wigginton Village Memorial
Pre War
Arthur Brown was born in 1892 in Wigginton, Herts, son of Charles Blake Brown, a Brickmaker (B 1864 in Northchurch, Herts) and Christiana Comfort Brown, (nee Crocket) (B 1862 in Tring, Herts). He was one of seven children.
1901 Census records Arthur aged 8, at school, living with his parents, brothers Thomas 16, William 13, Sidney 10, sisters Florence 12, Lilly 5 and Cecily 3, at Kiln Cottages, Wigginton, Herts.
By 1911 Arthur had left home and was working in Amersham, Bucks, as a Motor Driver and lodging with Hannah Minney of Woodside Lane, Amersham, Bucks.
Arthur married Sarah Wright in 1915, the marriage was registered in Berkhampstead, Herts.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted in Aylesbury, Bucks, initially posted to the Gloucestershire Regiment with the Service No. 28875. Later transferred to the Sherwood Forester (Notts and Derby Regiment) with the Service No. 96080. Arthur was Killed in Action on 2nd December 1917, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial to the missing. Panel 8.
Additional Information
The value of his effects were £6-5s-9d, Pay Owing and £6-10s-0d, War Gratuity, which went to his widow Sarah.
Acknowledgments
Andrew Palmer, Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild, Andrew Palmer
