BROWN, Adolphus Percy
| Service Number: | 5342 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 October 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 1st Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia, 5 March 1896 |
| Home Town: | Charters Towers, Charters Towers, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Station Hand |
| Died: | Innisfail, , 2 July 1988, aged 92 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Innisfail Cemetery, Qld |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5342, 9th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 20 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 5342, 9th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Hawkes Bay embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 20 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 5342, 9th Infantry Battalion, SS Hawkes Bay, Sydney | |
| 2 Mar 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 3rd Machine Gun Company, France | |
| 6 May 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 5342, 3rd Machine Gun Company, France: Shell Wound to left elbow | |
| 26 Sep 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 3rd Machine Gun Company | |
| 28 Jan 1918: | Honoured Military Medal, Recommendation made 17 October 1917 for'conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty' at Broodseinde Ridge east of Ypres | |
| 5 May 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 1st Machine Gun Battalion | |
| 22 Sep 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Corporal, 5342, 1st Machine Gun Battalion , France: WiA - shell wound to left shoulder | |
| 13 Jul 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Corporal, 5342, 1st Machine Gun Battalion , from England for RTA per Persic | |
| 26 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 5342, 1st Machine Gun Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Corporal Adolphus Percy Brown (Service No:5342) enlisted in the AIF as a Private attached to 9th Infantry Battalion 17th Reinforcments on 4 October 1915. Private Brown embarked from Sydney on 20 April 1916 with 9th Infantry Battalion on board HMAT Hawkes Bay. Promoted to Lance Corporal and then Corporal, he served in France with the 9th Infantry Battalion, 3rd Machine Gun Coy and 1st Machine Gun Battalion and was WiA in France on two occasions. On 17 October 1917 Lance Corporal Brown was recommeded for the Military Medal - 'During the period 13/10/1917 to 10/10/1917 at Broodseinde Ridge east of Ypres, Lance Corporal Brown showed conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Though very seriously shelled in his particular position in the S.O.S. Machine Gun barrage groups every day, he refused to abandon his gun. At one time a piece of H.E. shell casing ripped his barrel casing rather badly while firing in response to an S.O.S. Signal, but he remedied it and carried on. Under the heaviest fire this man maintained his cheerful disposition and helped greatly in keeping up the spirits of his men' (Commonwealth gazette No5). Corporal Brown embarked for the RTA on 13 July 1919 and was Discharged on 26 October 1919.
Born in 1896 in Charters Towers QLD, Adolph was the third of four children of Adolf Charles Brown (aka Charles; b1857 in Bockham, Germany) and Jane Mitchell (b1866 in Rockhampton, QLD). Charles immigrated in 1862, arriving in Maryborough, QLD on board the Glamis. He was a Miner in 1883 when he and Jane married in Charters Towers where they settled and Charles worked as a Miner and Engine Driver. The family later moved to Innisfail, QLD where Charles was an Engine Driver.
Adolph worked as a Station Hand in Charters Towers, QLD before enlistining in the AIF. He was a Labourer in Innisfail, QLD in 1925 when he married Evelyn Maud Robson (b1900 in Laidley, QLD). Adolph and Evelyn settled in Innisfail where they raised their family and Adolf worked as a Labourer and Wardsman. He served with the ACMF in WWII. Adolf died in 1988 and Evelyn in 1986.
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