BORN HULL 1893. THIRD SON OF ALFRED & ANN BROWN, OF 23, WYNDHAM STREET, HULL AND 84, CLARENDON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. LIVED AT 3, ROWLAND TERRACE, ST PAULS STREET, HULL. (HULL DAILY MAIL ADDRESS 23/05/1918). WORKED AS A COMPOSTOR APPRENTICE. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. KILLED ON 12/04/1918, AGED 26. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, ALFRED. FOUR OF HIS BROTHER SERVED IN WW1.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE ALFRED BROWN 12/578. Born 1893, Alfred was the fifth of nine children to Alfred and Ann Brown of 23 Wyndham Street, Hull. A Compositor by trade, Alfred had served in the 4th East Yorkshire’s before the war, their Territorial Army battalion. As such he was required to present himself for enlistment and did so at Hull City Hall on 24th September 1914. One of the original Pals, he originally served with the 12th Battalion in Egypt and then the trenches of France, being a veteran of the Somme and Oppy Wood when his battalion was merged with the 10th at the start of 1918. Alfred was killed in action on 12th April 1918 during the German Spring Offensive and his body was never recovered. His name is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial to the missing, he was 26 years old.
