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War Memorial
Australia

Frederick Paul Brown was born in Hahndorf in 1892. Specific details of his date of birth could not be ascertained from the South Australian Register of Births. Prior to enlisting on the 6th August 1916 at the age of 24, he worked as a gardener. When enlisting, he was given service number 7102 and named his mother, Mrs Fanny Clara Brown of Forest Range, as his next of kin. Brown proceeded to France as a private. He spent a week in hospital in June 1917. While on service in Boulogne in September 1917, Brown contracted trench fever and was again hospitalised in France and England before rejoining his unit, the 10th Battalion, on the 9th February 1918.
On the 23rd March 1918 Brown was wounded in action, suffering gunshot wounds to the thigh and shoulder. He was sent to the 54th General Hospital, and then transferred to England where he received treatment for his injuries at Brook War Hospital in Woolwich. Treatment was also undergone at Dartford and Hurdcott while Brown was in England.
On the 19th January 1919 he was appointed as a driver when transferred to the 1st Australian Divisional Train. Brown left France on the 15th May 1919, disembarking at Southampton the next day. He was supposed to have embarked for Australia on the 20th January 1920, but failed to do so as he had married Maud Johnson on the 8th July 1919 and Dr John Walker certified on the 24th March 1920 that Maud was over 5 months pregnant and should not undertake a sea voyage until July. In the meantime Brown obtained a position in the Engineers Office of Hull & Barnsley Railway Company, Hull.
Brown was discharged from the A.I.F in England on the 23rd May 1920. Brown’s mother, Mrs F. Brown, advised Base Records on the 31st August 1929 that her son’s address was Forest Range.