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Pte. Edward Brown
British Army 6th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:13 Temperence Terrace, Crook, County Durham
(d.10th Sept 1915)
This is a photograph of the headstone of Ned Brown who served with 6 Bn D.L.I He died of wounds on 10th September 1915 and is buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension. Also there is reference to the Brown Brothers on http://www.newmp.org.uk with a very interesting and touching letter from Nathan Brown published in the Durham Chronicle 24th September 1915:
Crook Private's Gallant End.
The death last weekend of Private E. Brown, of Crook, son of Mr Brown, chairman of the Auckland Board of Guardians, is conveyed in the following letter from his brother, who is also serving with the 6th Durhams in France. Private Nat Brown says: – "I know how you all feel about it. Poor old father and mother will fret an awful lot, I know. I’ve not the heart to write to them. Poor old Ned was hit with a shell, and it blew one of his legs off. I was working not far off him at the time, but I did not know till they had taken him to the hospital. They told me how brave he was, cheerful and in every respect a gallant fellow, as I knew he would be if the time came to prove it. We had such a jolly night together the night before he was hit."
