from Lambeth to Lijssenthoek - a soldier's journey
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William Harold Edward Brown was born in Lambeth, London in 1894 and raised in Station Grove, Wembley, in north-west London. Like many men born of this age, and ultimately, doomed by it, he was fated to serve in the First World War. He answered the call to arms and arrived on the Western Front on the 21st March, 1915. Four months later, he was killed by shellfire on 27th July 1915, six days short of his 21st birthday. Exactly where he was, and what he was doing, is unknown. This project has tried to trace his journey, from a number of ‘known’ places, via research, to those surmised, and speculated. It is highly likely that he was involved in the battle known as Second Ypres (22nd April-25th May 1915) and may have been familiar with some of these Flanders' landscapes - a landscape he would never leave.
William Brown was my great uncle.
