Private 18948 John Brown
Regiment/Unit: Border Regiment - 1st Bn.
Theatre of War: Gallipoli
Theatre of War First Served: 2b
Date Entered Therein: 11/08/1915
Age at death: 18
Date of death: 27th of August 1915
Born: Haydock, Lancs
Resided: Little Hulton, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Helles Memorial - Panel 119 to 125 or 222 and 223.
Family details:
Son of Frederick and Margaret A. Brown, of 2, Whitby St., Little Hulton, Bolton.
Census details:
1901 - 4 years old John is living at Arlington, Bibury with parents Frederick (38), Margaret (27) and three siblings: Louise (6), Frances (2), Fredrick (5 Mths). 1911 - Sees 14 years old 'Coal Mine Labourer' John, his widowed mother Maggie (37) and four siblings Florence (12), Frederick (10), Alice (5), Charles (3) boarding at 298 Blackbrook Road, Haydock, St Helens with the Morgan family.
Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=9]Remembered On The Holy Trinity War Memorial, Parr, St Helens.
[url=lmem.php?lmem=9]Remembered On The Holy Trinity War Memorial, Parr, St Helens.
[pic]imgs/WW1_memorials/Swanton-Andrews_Borders.jpg[/pic][caption]The panel on the Helles Memorial bearing the inscription for Private John Brown
(Photograph courtesy of Phil Wood off GWF )[/caption]
