Name
Norman Algernon Brown
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/02/1919
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Fusiliers *1
4th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BIGGLESWADE CEMETERY
Grave 3459
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Their work was well and nobly done
UK & Other Memorials
Stained Glass Window, Hitchin Boys Grammar School, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin, Biggleswade Memorial
Pre War
He was born on the 1st February 1898. His father, the late John Albert Brown, had been a solicitor's managing clerk. His mother was named Alice. Norman’s home was in Ladbrooke in Biggleswade.
Prior to attending the Hitchin Grammar School for the period 1910-1914 he was at Bedford Modern School. On leaving he became a clerk in a bank.
Wartime Service
Initially a rifleman in an O.T.C. of the London Rifle Brigade, he received his commission and went to France with the 4th Battalion of the London Regiment and saw considerable action during 1917. He was posted to the 4th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers. He was wounded and returned to England.
He was then appointed officer in charge of a prisoner of war camp at Farnborough. Unfortunately, he succumbed to the influenza epidemic that was raging in 1919 and died of pneumonia in Aldershot. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission slates that he died on the 28th February 1919.
He was buried in private grave 3459 in the old cemetery in Biggleswade, Beds. Several of his family are commemorated at the same location. An inscription on the headstone reads “Their work was well and nobly done".
Additional Information
His mother Alice remarried to become Mrs Tipple.
*1 More correctly London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers).
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
