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BROWN, Albert Wallace
| Service Number: | 2630 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 May 1916, Next of kin Mother, Mrs Ellen Brown, Princes Road, Mitcham, South Australia 50th Battalion, 6th Reinforcement |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 50th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Pinaroo, South Australia, 1878 |
| Home Town: | Pinnaroo, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Gardener |
| Died: | Natural causes, 15 July 1962, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
AIF Cemetery, West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia Section: KO, Road: 5A, Site No: 58 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 1 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2630, 50th Infantry Battalion, Next of kin Mother, Mrs Ellen Brown, Princes Road, Mitcham, South Australia 50th Battalion, 6th Reinforcement | |
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| 23 Oct 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2630, 50th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Melbourne embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
| 31 Jul 1918: | Wounded Private, 2630, 50th Infantry Battalion, Although he had a Red Cross File raised there is no record of him having been wounded. An inquiry (his sister) had been made presumably because his family had not heard from him for some months. He is recorded as rejoining his unit in late July 1918 after leave in the UK. | |
| 6 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2630, 50th Infantry Battalion, Returned to Australia 12 May 1919 'Port Napier' Discharged from Keswick Barracks Adelaide 6 Aug 1919 Awarded British War Medal and Victory Medal. per service record |
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Born in 1878 in Pinaroo South Australia to Mrs Ellen Brown Albert, Wallace Brown grew up in the same town that he was born in. Unfortunately a lot of his early personal life is unknown.
Albert Wallace Brown enlisted on 1 May 1916, at Princes Road, Mitcham, South Australia. Albert Wallace Brown was conscripted to be a part of the 50th Battalion.
On the 23rd of October 1916 Albert embarked to Belgium with the 50th Battalion. The 50th Battalion engaged in many vital battles of the war. These battles include the German retreat to the Heindenburg line in 1917, which was a huge battle with the Germans retreating to a line that stretched across many hundreds of kilometres of French land. This line was heavily fortified and defended by the Germans. This line was an extremely vital and “The last and strongest of the German army’s defence” – (The Hindenburg Line: Breaking the Hindenburg Line | Australian War Memorial 2021).
The 50th Battalions last major battle was on the Hindenburg line on September 18th 1918. On March 6th, 1919 the 50th Battalion ceased to exist as it merged with the 51st Battalion.
After the war had ended Albert Wallace Brown returned home to Australia in Port Napier on the 12th of May 1919. He was then discharged from the AIF on the 6th of August the same year from the Keswick barracks in South Australia. He was awarded the British war medal and victory medal for his service in the AIF. Throughout all of his time serving the AIF Albert started and ended with him being the rank of private.
Not much is known of what happened to Albert after the war. After Albert was discharged from the AIF he returned to his former job of being a Gardener until his unfortunate death in 15th of July 1962 to natural causes living a long 84 years, however his place of death was never uncovered. After his death he was buried in the AIF Cemetery, West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia.
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