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

BAIRD, John, Corporal, 32nd Battalion

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