James Leslie Brown

This name is on Holy Trinity war memorial, Clapham Common

James L. Brown (James Leslie Brown)

Service no. 554725

Rifleman, London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles), "B" Coy. 1st/16th Battalion

Killed in action on 30 November 1917, aged 19

CWGC: "Son of Charles and Esther Brown, of 31, Sibella Rd., Clapham, London."

Born in Clapham; enlisted in Wandsworth; lived in Clapham

Remembered at Cambrai Memorial, Louveral, Nord, France

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 James Leslie Brown shared six rooms at 64 Killyon Road Clapham with his parents, Charles Brown, 44, a commercial clerk from Paddington, and Esther Brown, 46, who was born in Lambeth. They had five children:

James Leslie Brown, 12, born in Clapham

Charles Brown, 9, born in Lambeth

Clara Winifred Brown, 7, born in Lambeth

Samuel Brown, 5, born in Clapham

Eva Elizabeth Brown, 3, born in Clapham