BROWN, Henry Groundsell, Private, 32nd Battalion

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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HISTORY

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).

RESIDENTS

BROWN, William Joseph, Private, 11th Battalion

Rank: Private

Regimental Number: 6724

Place of Birth: Perth, Western Australia

Address: East Fremantle, Western Australia

Next of Kin: Mother, Mrs M Brown

Enlistment Date: 1 July 1916

Unit Name: 11th Battalion, 22nd Reinforcement

Age embarkation: 19

Marital Status: Single

Occupation: Labourer

Date of Death: 6 October 1954

Cause of Death: -

Place of Burial: Karrakatta Cemetery

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BROWN, Oscar William, Private, 44th Battalion

Rank: Private

Regimental Number: 2796

Place of Birth: Victoria

Address: 11 Good Street, Perth, Western Australia

Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs Dagny Valdora Maria Brown

Enlistment Date: 16 October 1916

Unit Name: 44th Battalion, 6th Reinforcement

Age embarkation: 31

Marital Status: Married

Occupation: Clerk

Date of Death: 6 October 1962

Place of Burial: Frenchs Forest Cemetery

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BROWN, Hugh Phillip, Private, 5th Pioneer Battalion

Rank: Private

Regimental Number: 3304

Place of Birth: Toronto New South Wales

Address: 62 East Street(WW1: 92), East Fremantle, Western Australia

Next of Kin: Wife, Mrs E A Brown

Enlistment Date: 11 June 1916

Unit Name: 5th Pioneer Battalion

Age embarkation: 27

Marital Status: Married

Occupation: Engine driver

Date of Death: -

Place of Death: -

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