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Pte. John Brown
British Army 8th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment
from:Mexborough
(d.1st July 1916)
John Brown of 13th Platoon, D Coy, 8th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment was a Stokes Mortar gunner. He was reported missing on 1st July 1916 and has no known grave, though his Discs were returned to his family.
John had joined up underage, he was born on 11th of August 1898. A letter and his birth certificate were sent to Rugeley Camp and was birth certificate returned to family on 23rd February 1916. However, he was still sent to France in May 1916 and was deployed to the front line. We have a letter stamped by War Office in York on 15th of July 1916.
His niece is my mother-in-law, Margaret whose mother was John's sister Daisy Brown.