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L/Cpl. William Scott Brown
British Army 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment
from:Jarrow
(d.14th Aug 1917)
William Scott Brown was aged 23 when he died on 14th August 1917 whilst serving with the 6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
He was born, lived and enlisted in Jarrow.
Son of Thomas and Mary Alice Brown (nee Scott) of 11 Cobden Street Jarrow, where he is recorded as living with his parents on the 1911 census, at that time he was ages 16 and working as a Boilermaker in the Shipyard.
William is remembered on the Menin Gate in Ypres.
He is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (west face) Jarrow and on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
He was commemorated on the Triptych (right panel) in St. Mark's Church Jarrow (it is no longer a Church) and on the memorial in St. Peter's Church, Chaytor Street, Jarrow which it was demolished in the mid 1960s.