BROWN, Sidney
| Service Number: | 14301 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 August 1915, Melbourne, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Army Medical Corps (AIF) |
| Born: | Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, 18 August 1915 |
| Home Town: | Warrnambool, Warrnambool, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia, 11 August 1977, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria Boulevard Special Lawn, Section F, Row F, Grave 20 |
| Memorials: | Warrnambool Soldiers' Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 14301, Reinforcements WW1, Melbourne, Vic. | |
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| 27 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 14301, Army Medical Corps (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Barambah embarkation_ship_number: A37 public_note: '' | |
| 27 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 14301, Army Medical Corps (AIF), HMAT Barambah, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Alfed Smallbrook BROWN, Hopkins Road, Warrambool, Vic.
14301 Private Sidney Brown, AAMC Details (15th Field Ambulance). Born at Warrnambool in 1888, the youngest son of Alfred Smalbroke and Louisa (Mulder) Brown, of Goldicott, Hopkins Road, Warrnambool. In January 1913 Sidney married Warrnambool seamstress Marion Agnes Ross (1885-1913), they moved to Parkville where Sidney became a door to door salesman, but she died of blood poisoning on 23 August 1913 in the Melbourne hospital and is buried, aged 28, with her mother and sister in an unmarked (but recorded) site in the Warrnambool cemetery (Roman Catholic section). Sidney was listed as a Widower and was farming when he enlisted on 6th September 1915, embarking on HMAT A37 Barambah from Melbourne on 27th June 1916. His records at the National Archives of Australia show him to be 5 ft 6¾ inches tall, fresh complexion, grey eyes and brown hair, and Church of England. Taken on strength of 15th Field Ambulance in France on 26th February 1917. Admitted to 1st Southern General Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, suffering trench fever (severe) on 20th June 1917, returned to Australia for discharge (suffering aortic valve stenosis) per HS Port Lyttleton, embarking on 19th October 1917.
In 1919 he married Miss Gladys Emily Atkinson, the daughter of Matthew and Mary (Toal) Atkinson, of Warrnambool. They had one child, also Sidney, who carried on the family line. He died in Ascot Vale in 1977, aged 89, Gladys died in 1991, aged 94.
His elder brother 2292 Pte John Fielding Brown (43rd Battalion) was wounded in action (multiple shrapnel wounds) near Amiens, France, on 16 May 1918 and died of these wounds the following day in 20th Casualty Clearing Station, Vignacourt, buried in the Vignacourt British Cemetery, Picardie, France, Grave II.D.17. - Courtesy of James Affleck
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