BROWN, Herbert


No.13251, Private, Herbert BROWN
Aged 22


9th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Killed in Action on Thursday, 20th September 1917


Herbert Brown was born in Withersfield (Risbridge Q2-1894 4A:686) son of Eli and Sarah Hannah BROWN (née CARTER).

1901 census...Aged 6, he was at Barrack Row, Withersfield with his widower father Eli BROWN,[51] a farm labourer born Withersfield; his brothers David [23], Walter [20] both farm labourers, and Ernest [14] a houseboy; sisters Eliza [18] and Clara [16],these all born in Thurlow; brothers John [10], and Sidney [2]; sister Mary [4], all born in Withersfield. His brother Arthur William [8] was at another Barrack Row address, a boarder with Robert EVERETT, his wife Harriet and their son Alfred.

His mother had died earlier in 1901.

1911 census...Aged 17, a farm labourer, he was at Barrack Row, Withersfield with his father Eli BROWN [63] farm labourer; brothers John [21] (farm labourer) and Arthur William [19] a soldier.

CWGC have the address later as Hollow Hill Cottages, Withersfield.

His brother Arthur William, also in the Suffolks, died in Belgium in 1915 see here


He enlisted in Haverhill.
The war diary says they were in front line trenches at Mazingarbe. The 2 killed and 7 wounded (2 at duty) were transport personnel billeted at Les Brebis and were killed by a hostile shell falling on the lines about 12:30 am. The other man killed was Lance Corporal F Fitch from Cavendish.



photo: Rodney Gibson




photo:Rodney Gibson



Herbert Brown is buried in Mazingarbe Communal Cemetery Extension, grave 3:A:3

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