2nd Lieutenant John William BROWN
Remembrance - The Yorkshire Regiment, First World War
2nd Lieutenant John William BROWN

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2nd Lieutenant John William BROWN

Photo : Imperial War Museum Collections
Photo : Imperial War Museum Collections

2nd Lieutenant John William BROWN.
7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 16 October 1917.
Commemorated Panel 52 to 54 and 162A, TYNE COT MEMORIAL

The following comments are from Robert Coulson's Biiographies of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"John William Brown was born at Northallerton on February 19th 1893.
Before the war he worked for a local newspaper as a compositor and was very musical playing cornet in the local band and bell ringing at his local church (All Saints' Church, Northallerton).
John Brown joined the 4th Battalion as a territorial in April of 1912.
He sailed for France with the 4th Battalion as a Lance Corporal and fought with them at St Julien during the 2nd Battle of Ypres and was wounded in this action. He continued to be promoted through the ranks and finally achieved a commission when he joined the 7th Battalion in early 1917.
The 7th Battalion's involvement at 3rd Ypres, Battle of Passchendaele, began when they moved into the sector on October 4th 1917.
2nd Lt Brown was killed in action on October 16th 1917 at the age of 24 when the battalion were in the front line which consisted of “a series of shell holes with no cover or protection from enemy fire or the weather”.
2nd Lt John William Brown has no known grave and is remembered today on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing.
He was the son of Lawrence and Ada Brown of North End in Northallerton."

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