Current Information:

Born-Lambeth

Oxford (Botley) Cemetery

William Brown died from wounds on 7th December, 1914, after having been brought back to the United Kingdom but as yet, there is no information, as to when and where he was wounded. The 3rd Rifle Brigade battalion was part of 17 Brigade, 6th Division that had arrived in France at the beginning of the war and had been involved in the fighting on the Western Front since that date, including the First Battle of Ypres in the autumn of 1914.