BROWN, William Thomas
| Service Number: | 129 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 4th Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | New Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 3 December 1891 |
| Home Town: | New Lambton, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Carpenter |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Mouquet Farm, France, 4 September 1916, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension (Plot II, Row A, Grave No. 28), France, Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension, Warloy-Baillon, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 129, 13th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 129, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 4 Sep 1916: | Involvement Sergeant, 129, 4th Pioneer Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 129 awm_unit: 4th Australian Pioneer Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1916-09-04 | |
| 19 Apr 1917: | Honoured Military Medal, Mouquet Farm, 'Under heavy shell and machine gun fire these two N.C.O.s continuously exposed themselves in the open, in order to maintain communication and guide the party through the series of shell craters which it was necessary to pass in order to reach the objective. These N.C.O.s [BROWN and 4538 A.M. MUIR] undoubtedly by their devotion to duty saved considerable loss of time and material, and enabled the party to get through almost intact. Near MOUQUET FARM on the 3rd September, 1916.' Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 62 Date: 19 April 1917 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
104 years ago today, on the 4th September 1916, Sergeant Thomas William Brown (M.M.), 4th Australian Pioneer Battalion (Reg No-129), carpenter from Lambton Road, New Lambton, New South Wales, father of one (Mary Elsie Isabella Brown), died of wounds, age 24 years 9 months.
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1678965/
Born at New Lambton, New South Wales on the 3rd December 1891 to George (died 1935 - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138145176) and Mary (died 1942 - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140409679) Brown of St James Road, New Lambton, New South Wales; husband of Johanna Isabella (Isabell) Brown nee Hamilton (married 1913, died?) of Royal Street, New Lambton, N.S.W., William enlisted September 1914 with the 13th Battalion at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Wounded in action - 4.9.1916 (GSW buttocks - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133849459), Mr Brown is now resting at the Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Plot II Row A Grave 28.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133848740
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133840992
William’s name has been inscribed on the Adamstown Citizens' Memorial, Adamstown Independent Order of Rechabites, Hope of Adamstown Tent No. 76 Honour Roll, Lambton/New Lambton Municipal District Roll of Honor, New Lambton War Memorial Gates (photos, unveiled on the 11th November 1916, 114 names now inscribed) and the Book of Gold. William’s name should have been inscribed on the New Lambton Public School Roll of Honour and the Newcastle Progressive Carpenters & Joiners Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at the gravesite of William’s parents in remembrance of their son’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King and Country during The Great War. ANGLICAN 2-150. 54. (wrong date of death inscribed on Memorial Plaque).
http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/index.php/war-heroes/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51&aso=exact&s_f=id&data_search=30537#photo-1
Younger brother George Lesby (Reg No-721, 35th Battalion, born 1894, died 1963) resting at the cemetery. CATHOLIC 3-83. 16.
http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/index.php/war-heroes/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103&aso=exact&s_f=id&data_search=30923#2
Lest We Forget.
Far Away From All Who Loved Him In A Hero's Grave He Lies
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