Edward Stamfield Brown enlisted with the Manchester Regiment in October 1914 aged 20 years. Before the War, he had apprenticed as a plumber in Manchester, living with his sister and grandmother. After training, he was posted as part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Egypt for over a year before being invalided back to England in October 1916. He was discharged from the army on 21 December 2016 as no longer physically fit for service, due to tuberculosis of the lungs.

His death in Thaxted Essex was therefore not directly related to the War and possibly due to his TB and/or the Spanish 'flu epidemic in 1919. His grave is maintained by the CMGC in Thaxted Churchyard, where I used to pass him everyday on my walk home from school in the 1970s. Rest in Peace.

James Turpin