Notes
The Roll lists his address as 180 Star Road - which was where his mother Sarah Ann Brown was living on the 1911 census. Ernest's brother Lewis is also listed on the Roll.
(CWGC records that Private E. L. Brown, regimental number 11396, died on 23/5/1916 serving in the 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, and is buried in grave I.D.23 at Albert Communal Cemetery Extension in France. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Private Ernest Levi Brown, 11396, was born in Oakham and was living in Wroot when he enlisted in Gainsborough. Ernest's Army service file records that he enlisted 31/8/1914, and went to France with the 2nd Battalion on 13/1/1916; the file is noted that his widow Nellie Brown, of 25 Nottingham Place, Gainsborough, was awarded a pension for herself and their two children: Charles Ernest & Phyllis Irene).