Current Information:

Born-Shepherd's Bush

Bailleul Communal Cemetery, France

Second Battle of Ypres (April-May, 1915)

In April 1915 the Germans, using gas for the first time, launched an all out attack on the salient around the Belgian town of Ypres. It became a gargantuan struggle that lasted well into the next month and at the end of it, the salient, though drastically reduced, still stood.

On 10th May, 1915, the 4th Royal Fusiliers battalion of 9 Brigade, 3rd Division were relieved from the trenches near Ypres and moved back to huts in Dickebusch. Walter Brown died on the following day, 12th May, but there is no further information concerning his death.