BROWN, Reginald James
| Service Number: | 2636 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 September 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 7th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Cooma, New South Wales, 15 April 1895 |
| Home Town: | Cooma, Cooma-Monaro, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Postal assistant |
| Died: | Wallsend?, N.S.W., 31 August 1962, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 3-85. 69. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2636, 7th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 2 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 2636, 7th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 2 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 2636, 7th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Hororata, Sydney | |
| 2 Nov 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Trooper, 2636, 7th Light Horse Regiment, 2nd MD, medically unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
63 years ago today, on the 1st September 1962, Trooper Reginald James Brown, 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment (Reg Nos- 2500 & 2636), postal assistant from Cooma Creek, Cooma, New South Wales and Wallsend?, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 67. CATHOLIC 3-85. 69.
Born at Cooma, New South Wales on the 15th April 1895 to William George, died?, and Bridget Brown nee Kelly, died 1.7.1946, Cooma, N.S.W., age 74; husband of Vera Brown nee Nugent, married 1927, Cooma, N.S.W., died 1970?, Reg enlisted on the 5th September 1915 at Lithgow, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A20 Hororata on the 2nd May 1916.
Admitted to hospital 1.8.1916 (bronchitis, cardiac dilation).
Commenced return to Australia 17.8.1916.
Reg returned home on the 4th September 1916, being discharged medically unfit on the 2nd November 1916.
Nothing located on Trove regarding enlistment, returning home, etc.
Did not serve in a theatre of war, therefore was not granted Victory Medal.
Mr. Brown’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Reg’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Officially commemorated – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html....
Many thanks to Gail Gibbs for the notification.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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