Kim Semmence [mailto:semmence@semmence.karoo.co.uk] writes on the 15/04/2016: The Charles Brown who was killed on 27/06/1917 left his effects to his sister, Winifred Dearness. I traced her in the 1939 register and found a DOB consistent with a Winifred Brown born 13/02/1887 and baptised in St Charles on 06/05/1892…she did not have a brother named Charles, but she did have one named Clarence Reginald born 19/05/1884 and baptised at St Charles on 22/05/1884. Clarence disappeared from official records after the 1911 census and I have accounted for the other Clarence Brown born in Hull and of the right age to serve, so I believe Clarence Reginald and 201473 Charles Brown are one and the same.
He was a lighterman, son of William Brown, a lighterman and Norwegian by birth and Sarah (nee Greatorex), who lived at 1, Goshen Place, James Street (1911 Census) and 10, Queens Place, William Street, Hull (war pension address)
Brown, Charles.
First name:
CHARLES
Regiment:
Military Number:
201473
Rank:
Private
Date Died
27/06/1917
Place died:
Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
32
