Aubrey Edward Furnell BROWN

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BROWN, Aubrey Edward Furnell

Service Numbers:	6406, 6407
Enlisted:	3 July 1916, Sydney
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	19th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Pambula, New South Wales, Australia, 1897
Home Town:	Pambula, Bega Valley, New South Wales
Schooling:	Pambula Public School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Died of Illness (appendicitis), Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, 29 January 1917
Cemetery:	Plymouth (Efford) Cemetery, Devon, England, Row C, Grave 4952,
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Pambula District Soldiers Memorial

World War 1 Service

3 Jul 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6406, 19th Infantry Battalion, Sydney
11 Nov 1916:	Involvement Private, 6407, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: ''
11 Nov 1916:	Embarked Private, 6407, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suevic, Sydney
29 Jan 1917:	Involvement Private, 6406, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 6406 awm_unit: 19 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-01-29

Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

Aubrey Edward Furnell BROWN, (Service Number 6406) was born on 30 March 1897 at Pambula. He first worked for the NSW Tramways as a cleaner of electric trams in Sydney from 13 December 1915. This was the only role he ever had, and it was from it that he was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces on 3 June 1916. He did not enlist until a month later, at the RAS Showground Camp at Sydney. He described himself as a clerk rather than a cleaner and gave his father still living at Pambula as his next of kin.
Allotted to Reinforcements for the 18th and 19th Battalions he embarked HMAT ‘Suevic’ at Sydney on 11 November 1916. He died of appendicitis on board that ship when it was very close to the end of its journey on 29 January 1917. Rather than having a burial at sea, Brown’s corpse was landed at Devonport and buried at Efford Cemetery, Plymouth.
(NAA B2455-1794453)

Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Aubrey Edward Furnell BROWN was born in 1897 in Pambula, NSW

His parents were Edward BROWN and Emma Matilda FURNELL who married in Eden in 1895 - one known brother, Wallace Witts BROWN

Aubrey enlisted on 3rd July, 1916 at the Sydney Showground for WW1 and was with the 19th Battalion, 18th Reinforcement, A Company, 5 Brigade which embarked from Sydney on the ship Suevic on 11th November, 1916

He died at sea of appendicitis aboard the HMAT Suevic (A29) on 29th January, 1917. After arrival in England his body was sent to the Military Hospital at Devonport - he is buried in Efford Cemetery in Plymouth, and his name is memorialised at the Australian War Memorial.

He was awarded the British War Medal

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