Name: BROWN, JOHN
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sapper
Regiment/Service: Royal Engineers
Unit Text: 260 Field Coy.
Age: 29
Date of Death: 29/01/1945
Service No: 2753961
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. 317.
Cemetery: BRUNSSUM WAR CEMETERY
Adopted by: Rotary Brunssum-Onderbanken

“According to our records, Sapper John Brown was one of 18 casualties recovered from Schimmert and reburied in Brunssum war Cemetery in July 1946.  There were 2 plots at Schimmert.  The first plot containing 12 casualties was located to the North-East of Schimmert, in the vicinity of the junction of Leeuwenkuilsweg and Mareweg.  The other plot of 6 casualties was to the North-West along the Langstraat.  We do not have photographs of either of these plots.

Source - Commonwealth War Graves Commission