Frederick Arthur Brown

A Private with 7th Bn., Frederick died on 3rd of August 1917 at the age of 23. 

Frederick was born at Chelsfield, Kent, on 14 March 1894, a son of Frederick Arthur and Florence Ellen Brown of 6 Wellington Road, Pakefield, Lowestoft. Frederick was educated at Farnborough and later at Morton Road School. 

Frederick married Hilda Boyce at Saint Margaret's Church, Lowestoft, on 2 November 1915. At that time he was working as a plumber at Blackheath, Kent. 

Frederick enlisted at Bromley, Kent, on 20 January 1916 and he arrived in France in May 1916. Frederick was serving with D Company of the 8th Battalion when he received a gunshot wound to his left upper arm and he was admitted to hospital on 28 June 1916. Once recovered Frederick was posted to the 7th Battalion. 

At some point Frederick was wounded again: the War Diary for the 7th Battalion gives a details list of men killed and wounded in the period 6 July to 27 July 1917 and Frederick is not names in the list, so it is possible that he was wounded before July 1917. Frederick would have been taken to one of the Casualty Clearing Stations in the Lijssenthoek area, where he died from his wounds.  

By 1917 Hilda was living at 6 Wellington Road, Pakefield.