OUR ONLY CHILD
LOVE NEVER FAILETH

PRIVATE GEORGE HENRY JENNINGS BROWN

MIDDLESEX REGIMENT

12TH JANUARY 1916 AGE 19

BURIED: BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY, VLAMERTINGHE, FRANCE


George Brown was the only child of the Reverend Thomas and Mrs Brown of St Stephen's Church, Walthamstow. They chose an extract from the New Testament, 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8, in the American Standard Version, for their son's headstone inscription: Love ... beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth;