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“If you think, have a kindly thought, If you speak, speak generously, Of those who as heroes fought And died to keep you free”
Set up by the Black Country Society. Our aim is to highlight local men who died in the Great War and how they have been commemorated on war memorials. Its scope covers the whole of the present Dudley Municipal Borough and therefore includes the places which have come within its bounds since 1914.
There are over fifty memorials and the number of names exceeds three thousand. Research on the names has been extensive but inevitably errors and omissions occur. We would like to hear about them concentrated on life and work before 1914, involvement in military campaigns and where each man is buried or commemorated.
Albert Brown was born in Bath and was the son of Frederick and Rosa Brown of Adelaide Road, Brierley Hill. He enlisted in the Lincolns and went to the 1st Battalion. They were very active in the 1916 Battle of the Somme at Albert, Bazentin, Morval and Guedecourt and in the April 1917 Battle of Arras. In the later stages of the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917 they attacked in the Battle of Broodseinde on the 4th October and Private Albert Brown was killed in action on this day. He was 29 years of age and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial and on the Brierley Hill and Brierley Hill church Memorials.
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