Notes
This man is mistakenly listed on the Roll twice: once as "Joseph Beecroft Brown" (recording no address, and stating him to be a Lance Corporal in Royal West Kents who "Died of pneumonia 26/11/1918"); and again as "Joseph Beecroft Exton", listing him as being of Hankey Street, and as a Lance Corporal (in an unnamed Regiment) who "Died of Bronchial pneumonia in France November 1918". He was similarly mistakenly listed twice on the original 1921 version of the Roll, and also in the Book of Remembrance in St Sprite's Chapel at Peterborough Cathedral, which likewise has entries for him both as Joseph Beecroft Exton and as Joseph Beecroft Brown.
(His true name was Joseph Beecroft Exton, as which his birth was registered in Grantham in 1883, and as which he was recorded on all documents, including census and military etc. Joseph was the son of James Exton and Sarah Ann nee Beecroft, who had married in 1873; at no time was he ever listed on official records under the surname Brown.
CWGC records that Lance Corporal J Exton, regimental number 16557, died on 8/11/1918 while serving in the 6th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment, and is buried in grave VII.A.8 at Tourgeville Military Cemetery in France.
The Army service file of Joseph Exton of 3 Hankey Street, Peterborough records that he enlisted on 8/7/1916 in the Royal West Kent Regiment, regimental number G/16557; he was 36 years old, the husband of Emily Eliza nee Henson, who he had married on 5/4/1907. Having been wounded on 21/9/1918, he was admitted to Rouen Hospital on 22/9/1918; he was thence transferred to Trouville Hospital on 26/9/1918, where he died from influenza/ broncho-pneumonia on 8/11/1918. Among the relatives recorded in his Army file was his married sister named Ethel Mary Brown, which appears to have somehow given rise to Joseph's erroneous entry under the surname Brown on the two versions of the Roll of Honour and in the Book of Remembrance. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects recorded him as Joseph Exton, and that his widow Emily was his legatee.
See also the rogue entry for him on this 1994 Roll as Joseph Beecroft Brown.