Ben Brown (28923 Pte.)

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a soldier of the border regiment
remembered with honour

Lonsdale Battalion Roll of Honour

Name	Ben Brown
Rank	Private
Number	28923
Company
Attached §
Transferred ¥
Former unit ‡	50161 Manchester Regt.
Enlisted	Manchester, Lancashire
Resident	20 Stirling Street, Wigan, Lancashire
Born	Wigan
Died	2 December 1917
Where died	France and Flanders
How died	Killed in action
Age	23
Casualty type	Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial	Memorial (see notes)
Reference no.	Panel 85-86
Resting place	Tyne Cot Memorial
Source	Commonwealth War Graves Commission Soldiers Died in the Great War (1921) *Wigan and Leigh Archives Online
Notes	*Son of James and Georgina Brown, of Bryn Elroy, Upper Dyserth, Flintshire, Wales. *Also remembered in the Peace Gate at St. Wilfrid’s Churchyard in Standish, on his parents’ grave in the churchyard, and on the Wigan Cenotaph. *Previously employed as a Railway Porter.

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