Robert Rae BROWN

BROWN, Robert Rae

Service Number: NX26178
Enlisted: 17 June 1940
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 15 January 1915
Home Town: Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 28 February 1985, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
Memorials: Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

17 Jun 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX26178
14 Nov 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX26178

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Biography contributed by Ian Watkins

Robert Rae Brown enlisted in 8 Div Engineers who were sent to Singapore where they were captured by the Japanese. He endured the rest of the war as a POW of the Japanese. He survived because he was young and wiry and able to live on meager rations.

After the war, he returned to Newcastle where he married Margaret Conolly on 19 Jan 1946. They had three children.