Name
Arthur Brown
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/05/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
13897
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND (TRANSPORT FARM)
I. A. 5.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
His home address was 9, St. Andrew's Place, Queen St. Hitchin and he was born and resident in Hitchin and enlisted there.
Wartime Service
By September 1914 Arthur was in the 3rd Battalion of the Bedfords, but was later posted to the 1st Battalion with the Regimental Number 13897 and was killed in action in Belgium.
Early in May, the Battalion suffered over one third casualties near Hill 60 and spent the rest of the month at railway embankments near Zillebeke Pond providing large working parties day and night. This was at the close of the Second Battle of Ypres.
He was buried in Plot I, Row A, Grave 5 in the Railway Dugouts Burial Ground in Belgium.
Additional Information
His brother was William Brown, killed in action on the 4th August 1918.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
