BROWN, ERNEST WILLIAM, Private, No. 11309, 1st Battn. (7th Foot) The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), s. of Charles William Brown, of Ilopton, Thetford, by his wife, Mary; b. Shepdham, co. Norfolk, 27 Sept. 1885; educ. Council School there; was a Butcher; enlisted 31 May, 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from the following Dec.; was reported missing after the fighting at Ypres 31 July, 1917, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on or since that date. He m. at Shipdham, 26 Dec. 1908, Zoraida (Church Road, Brandon, co. Suffolk), dau. of Arthur Eastick, and had three sons: Alec Charles, b. 4 April, 1910; Stanley Eastick, b. 24 Sept. 1912, and Ernest Frank, b. 2 July, 1917.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5