Rank: Sergeant
Regimental Number: 856
Place of Birth: Leichardt, New South Wales
Address: Holland Street, Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs Harriett Luly, c/o E Kellyrew
Enlistment Date: 11 May 1915
Unit Name: 32nd Battalion, C Company
Age embarkation: 22
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Accountant
Date of Death: 11 November 1934
Place of Burial: Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth, Western Australia
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Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 1401
Place of Birth: East Fremantle
Address: 10 East Street(WW1: 22), East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs Amelia Brown
Enlistment Date: 26 July 1915
Unit Name: 32nd Battalion, D Company
Age embarkation: 24
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Horse driver
Date of Death: 3 November 1966
Place of Burial: -
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Born into a large family of 12 children. His siblings included: Ernest (1888), Frances (1892), Ivy (1895), Eva (1886), Mabel (b & d 1897), Thomas (1898-1947), George(1901-1968), Vera (1903), Stanley (1905), James ‘Jim’, Albert, and Edna. His mother was Mary Ann Thompson and father Thomas Groundsell Brown. Brother George Edward Groundsell Brown, worked as a Lumper and played a role in the famous Fremantle wharf riot of 1919, he was the first man injured in the troubles (reference). Thomas’s enlistment record, National Archives 1918 (reference).
Rank: Private
Regimental Number: 890
Place of Birth: London England
Address: Marbelup Siding, Great Southern Railway
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs Elizabeth Blake
Enlistment Date: 8 July 1915
Unit Name: 32nd Battalion, C Company
Age embarkation: 29
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Gardener
Date of Death: 7 August 1948
Place of Burial: Botany Cemetery
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Rank: Corporal
Service Number: 1211
Place of Birth: Linlithgowshire, Scotland
Address: Napoleon Street, Cottesloe, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs Margaret Baird
Enlistment Date: 19 July 1915
Unit Name: 32nd Battalion
Age at Embarkation: 35
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Railway clerk
Date of Death: 1 December 1917
Place of Burial: Messines Ridge British Cemetery (Plot I, Row B, Grave No. 56), Belgium
Image Courtesy of Australian War Memorial
Rank: Corporal
Regimental Number: 866
Place of Birth: Brisbane, Queensland
Address: Richmond Hill, East Fremantle, Western Australia
Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs Elizabeth Ellis Jarman
Enlistment Date: 25 June 1915
Unit Name: 32nd Battalion, C Company
Age embarkation: 25
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Clerk
Date of Death: 20 July 1916
Place of Burial: No known graves
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Son of Richard Edward (deceased) and Elizabeth Ellis Jarman of "Ellisville", Richmond Hill, East Fremantle, WA. Born in Brisbane.
Reported missing in action 20 July 1916 following Battle of Fromelles. Court of Enquiry held 12 August 1917, pronounced KIA 20 July 1916.
Listed on Fremantle War Memorial. Plaque at Kings Park Honour Avenue.
Reference: WFDWA project by Shannon Lovelady
10 February 1918 Wills. Ernest Hewitt Jarman, late of Richmond Hill, East Fremantle, to Sydney Arthur Jarman. £756 (Reference)