f you stand at the church door and look south, towards the old Church hall, the grave of Private J.C. Brown is there in front of you on the right of the path. If you visit the churchyard in the next couple of weeks, why not stop, look at it......and remember.

Private John Christopher Brown was born in 1881 and joined the army on 11th November 1915 as a part of the 10th Entrenching Battalion and later of the Royal Scots Regiment.

He died on 12th November 1918. (just 10 says before the end of the war) and is buried in the churchyard of St Mary's Church Bagby.

He was initially posted to France where it is believed he served on the Western Front. He died on 12th November 1918 (just 10 days before the war ended) from wounds received but no further details of where he was at that time.

The inscription on his grave reads:

"Ye Shall Receive a Crown of Glory that fadeth not away. 1Peter v4

He was born in 1881 at The Cottage, Sutton under Whitestonecliffe and was the younger son of Christopher John Brown of Thirkleby (b.1851) and mother, Elizabeth of Wass (b.1853) The family being their parents, Christopher and Elizabeth, together with their children, John Christopher and brother James William, later moved to The Laurels, Bagby.

John, like his father, was a farm labourer before joining the army and the 10th Entrenching Battalion in 1915.

Why not join us at our Remembrance Service at St Mary's at 10.30 on Sunday 13th November