BROWN, Cecil Arthur
| Service Number: | 67967 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 July 1918 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 16th to 27th Reinforcements (NSW) |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales Australia , 8 April 1900 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Audit Clerk |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , 1988, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 22 Jul 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 67967, 16th to 27th Reinforcements (NSW) | |
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| 2 Nov 1918: | Involvement Private, 16th to 27th Reinforcements (NSW), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Nov 1918: | Embarked Private, 16th to 27th Reinforcements (NSW), HMAT Medic, Sydney | |
| 23 Dec 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, 67967, 16th to 27th Reinforcements (NSW) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Cecil Arthur Brown (Service No:67967) served in the AIF with 27th (NSW) General Reinforcements from 22 July 1918 to 23 December 1918. Private Brown had two years previous experience in the Militia with 2nd Battalion 17th Infantry.
Cecil was born in Sydney, NSW in 1900, third of four children of Arthur Haywood Brown (b1873 in Queanbeyan, NSW) and Annie Edith Maling (b1876 in Sydney, NSW). Arthur (a Printer) and Annie married in 1892 in Sydney, where they settled and raised their family until Arthur's death in 1922. Annie remained in Sydney until her death in 1963.
Cecil was working as an Audit Clerk in Sydney in 1918 when he enlisted in the AIF. In 1927 in Peak Hill, NSW Cecil married Nita (Doss) Doris Matthews (b1902 in Parkes, NSW). Cecil and Doss settled in Sydney, where they raised their family and Cecil was an Auditor. Doss died in 1958 and Cecil in 1988.