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Ruby Davina Mary Brown was the third oldest of twelve children to her Scottish born parents, David Laughland Brown (1839-1907) and Marion Wight (1851-1928). Her father was a successful and prominent Queensland merchant, having developed a large domestic and international trading enterprise.

Sister Ruby Brown was a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service from August 1916 and served in the Middle East and Salonika before returning home in September 1919.

Ruby Brown continued with her nursing career after the war. In 1926 she gained qualifications in child welfare and in 1929 was appointed as the Sister-in-Charge of the Rockhampton Baby Health Clinic, a position she would hold for 17 years.

Ruby Brown’s brother Archibald Lorrimer Brown (1884-1935) was a veteran of the Boer War and served with the 15th Battalion during World War I. He was taken prisoner of war in February 1917, being repatriated to Australia in early 1919. Her sister, Dorothy Brown enlisted in 1915 with the Australian Army Nursing Service and served at Lemnos treating the wounded from Gallipoli and later working in England and France. She returned to Australia in late 1917 to marry Captain Eric William Gregg Wren of the 3rd Battalion A.I.F.

Sister Ruby Davina Mary Brown never married and died in 1947 at the age of 70.

References:

http://brackenridgehistory.blogspot.com/2016/04/brs-10-scottish-families-of-bracken.htm