2nd Corporal Hermann Brown, born Carl Theodor Hermann Brown, was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1894, at Bradford, the son of German-born confectioner Hermann and Sarah Jane Brown, of Leeds. At the time of the 1911 census, the younger Brown was working as an iron moulder while living with his family at 2 Victor Street, Manningham.
Aged 23, Brown died on 10 October 1918, during the Allied Hundred Days Offensive on the Western Front, while serving with the 49th Division Signal Company, Royal Engineers. He had formerly belonged to the Royal Field Artillery.
He is buried in Naves Communal Cemetery Extension.
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- Ancestry.co.uk.
- Brown, Hermann, cwgc.org. Retrieved 30 December 2012.