Cyril (Cecil) Stuart Brown

Memorial: Yate - St Mary's Church Lych Gate

Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment

Medals: British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal

Rank and number: Private 14622

Parents: Harry and Annie Eliza Brown 

Date of birth: 1891

Place of birth: Shirehampton, Bristol

Date of death: 26/07/1916

Buried/Commemorated at: Thiepval Memorial (Pier and Face 5A and 5B), Somme, France

Age: 25

Further information:

Cyril (Cecil) Stuart Brown was born in 1891 in Shirehampton. His parents were Harry and Annie Eliza Brown

Cyril (Cecil) enlisted in Bristol. He joined the 12th (Service)(Bristol) Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment. He died in July 1916 at the age of 25. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial in the Somme in France

Cyril (Cecil) Stuart Brown is remembered on the Yate Lych Gate Memorial and the Chipping Sodbury and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, which is now at Yate and District Heritage Centre, under Yate

Name recorded on Forces War Records and CWGC as Cecil S Brown

By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):

With kind permission of Yate and District Heritage Centre. Forces War Records and CWGC