Lives of the First World War

This photo shows: Jack (John Henry ~14), Eliza Ann (mother ~43), Tom (Thomas Henry ~13), Ally (Alice Mary ~16), George (~8), Charlie (~6) and anon. The only missing child was Edward Bailey (~18); probably either he or their father John (~44) took the picture

Describes previous jobs, volunteering, surviving the big German attack of 21 March 1918, manner of death, letters of condolence

Suffolk Regiment Roll of Honour held near the Regimental Chapel in St Mary's, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk; open at the page showing Charles Brown

The entry for Charles Brown

Watercolour of Houghton Mill, Huntingdonshire signed 'C. Brown 1912'

The Brown family memorial in the graveyard of St Mary's Church Burwell, Cambridgeshire; shows the side commemorating Charles Brown

The War Memorial inside St Mary's Church, Burwell, Cambs

The War Memorial near the Burwell ex-Service and Social Club. Charles's name is the 9th down the 2nd column

Entry for Charles Brown: 'CHARLES BROWN SUFF. 10 APR 1918'

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Berks Cemetery Extension, Ploegsteert, Belgium

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Berks Cemetery Extension, Ploegsteert, Belgium

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Berks Cemetery Extension, Ploegsteert, Belgium

The Brown family tree from John Brown (b. c. 1790) to the present

Image from Barclays Bank Book of Remembrance - World War One. Completed in April 1959, with parchment pages, the book was decorated and gilded by Dorothy Hutton.

After WW2 it was decided that the permanent official Barclays Bank memorial should be an illuminated inscribed book of remembrance, one for each war. Originally put on display in a purpose-built wall case at 54 Lombard Street, the books were then put on display in the new head office building in the 1990s, and when the head office moved in 2005 to 1 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, the books were put on display in cases there. The WW1 book lists members of staff who lost their lives serving in the armed forces, separated into Barclays Bank, London and South Western Bank, and London and Provincial Bank. The book has parchment pages, with leather binding, engrossed, decorated and gilded by Dorothy Hutton, and bound by Sydney M Cockerell, and includes illustrations of head offices and coats of arms of the three banks. The image shows the page of the WW1 book which features this person’s name as an employee of Barclays Bank Limited.

Image of the original design for a Barclays Bank colour printed WW1 roll of honour. Reproduced in monochrome in “History of Barclays Bank Limited”, P W Matthews & A W Tuke, 1926, page 396.

Image of the original Barclays Bank WW1 memorial panel formerly in the Great Hall at 54 Lombard Street. Published in Spread Eagle (the staff magazine of Barclays Bank), volume 26 (1951), page 461