Name
Frederick John Brown
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/03/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/60128
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 113 to 115.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, Tilehouse St., Baptist Church War Memorial, Hitchin, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin, Hitchin British Boys' School Memorial, Hitchin, We are not aware of any Charlton memorial
Pre War
His home was with his parents at Peartree Cottage, Charlton near Hitchin and they were William and Emily Brown and Frederick was born in Charlton.
He was educated at Tilehouse Street Baptist School and on leaving was employed by H. Peters, Butchers of Hitchin.
Wartime Service
He was called up for service on the 24th March 1917 and was posted to the 1st Battalion of the Regiment with the Regimental Number G/60128. The Battalion was part of the 98th Brigade in the 33rd Division. He went to France in October 1917 and was killed in action in Belgium.
His date of death coincides with the 1st Battalion spending quite an amount of time in the front line south west of Passchendaele and they suffered a number of casualties from mustard gas shelling.
He has no known grave, but is remembered on Panels 113-115 of the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing in Belgium.
Additional Information
He was the cousin of Francis Brown who was killed in action on the 19th April 1916.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
