HERE’S one from the archives. It’s the Abergavenny Rangers team pictured over a century ago. The year was 1914 to be precise. The same year which the Great War broke out and claimed millions of young mens’ lives.

Sadly, one such man is pictured in this photo. His name is William Christopher John Brown and’s he can be seen in the back row fourth from right.

William was born in 1894 and and lived at 1 Asylum Cottages in Lower Monk Street. He joined the Welsh Regiment, 9th Battalion in 1914 and was promoted to Lance Corporal.

Like so many of his generation he never returned home from the killings fields of Flanders. Following four years of fighting he was presumed dead on March 24, 1918, mere months before the war ended. He was awarded the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.

The Abergavenny man’s final resting place is a war grave in Bancourt Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.

Bill Brown was just 24 when he was killed.

If you’ve got any engaging and striking pictures from the past (they don’t just have to be sport related!) that could do with an airing and benefit from the oxygen of publicity, then why let them

linger and gather dust in the drawer a day longer? Send them to [email protected]. Alternatively you can do things the old fashioned way and pick up the telephone and ring Tim Butters on 01873 852187 (30).