BROWN, Albert Gregory
| Service Number: | T42794 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 March 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12/50 Infantry Battalion AMF |
| Born: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 25 March 1912 |
| Home Town: | Scottsdale, Dorset, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Sawmill Hand |
| Died: | Devonport, Tasmania, Australia, 17 February 2000, aged 87 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mersey Vale Memorial Park Cemetery, Tasmania |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 24 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, T42794, 12/50 Infantry Battalion AMF | |
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| 15 Jan 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, T42794, 12/50 Infantry Battalion AMF |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Albert Gregory Brown (Service No:T42794) served in the ACMF with 12/50 Battalion from 24 March 1941 to 15 January 1942.
Greg was born in Sorrell via Hobart, Tasmania in 1912, eldest of five children of Charles William Brown (b1888 in Nugent nr Hobart) and Annie (Myrtle) Maria Glennon (b1888 in Sorrell, Tasmania). Charles and Myrtle married in Sorrell in 1912, and were early settlers at the Forrester Settlement via Scottsdale, where they raised their family and Charles was Farmer and later a Sawmiller.
Greg worked in the Forrester Settlement as a Labourer and Sawmill Hand before enlisting in the ACMF. Following his Discharge, Greg was a Bushman in Launceston, and in the mid 1940s married Eileen Dorothy Rogers (b1918 at Mole Creek, Tasmania). Greg and Eileen settled in Devonport, where they raised their family and Greg worked as a Sawmiller. Eileen died in 1988 and Greg in 2000.
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