Name
Horace Brown
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/03/1916
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
1048
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and Army Cyclist Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WATFORD CEMETERY
B. 2. 116
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Shows 'PM' - Private Memorial
UK & Other Memorials
Redbourn War Memorial, The Common Commemorative Panel, South aisle, St Mary's Church, Redbourn
Pre War
Born in 1890 at Church End, Redbourn son of George and Elizabeth (Collins) Brown, 68 Church End, Redbourn, Herts, and christened in Redbourn on 5 Oct 1890.
He married Lucy Owers, of Vale House, Pleshey, Chelmsford in Watford on 7 Jun 1915. He was a stableman.
Wartime Service
Initially enlisted Private 8596 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in London on 11 Jun 1906 and transferred to the Army Reserve on completion of his service on 23 Dec 1912 having served in Crete, Malta and China.
At the start of the war he was mobilised to the British Expeditionary Force on 6 Aug 1914 at Omagh, Co Tyrone and served in France from 22 Aug 1914 until 29 Apr 1915 when he returned to England.
He was discharged no longer physically fit for war service on 14 Oct 1915 and died of tuberculosis at home five months later.
Additional Information
Brother of L/Cpl Solomon Brown who died of wounds on 13 Sep 1914 and is also commemorated on the Redbourn memorials. Commemorated on the Our Watford History website - https://www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk/content/service-people/brown-h
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes
Gareth Hughes, Malcolm Lennox
