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SOUTH SHIELDS

Brown, W.H., Spr., 1919

Photo: James Pasby

In St. Stephen's and St. Aidan's Churchyard is a Commonwealth War Grave headstone which reads:

Buried in this churchyard

WR/509248 Sapper
W.H. Brown
Royal Engineers
23rd November 1919.

W.H. Brown worked in Readhead's shipyard. He was in the Royal Engineers on the Inland Waterways and Docks.

W.H. Brown is remembered at South Shields on S86.19


The CWGC entry for Sapper Brown

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