Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Sylvester Brown a carpenter, born 1876 in Foxton, Leics., and his wife Lucy a boarding school teacher, born 1873 in Twyford, Leics. Clarence was born in 1898 in Foxton, Leics., also residing with the family was his maternal aunt, Sarah F. Langman, born 1879 in Tilton on the Hill, Leics., in March 1901 the family home was at Grants Lodge, Foxton, Leics. In April 1911 Clarence was a scholar and was residing in the family home at Foxton, Leics., together with his father and mother, now a sub postmistress, and his siblings, Dorothy E. M., born 1908 and Grace E., born 1911, both his siblings were born in Foxton, Leics.