BROWN, Thomas Arthur
| Service Number: | 1903 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Brookton, Brookton, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 8 November 1916, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Heilly Station Cemetery Grave V. F. 18., Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L'Abbe, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brookton District War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 1903, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
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| 2 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 1903, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 25 and the son of Arthur and Annie Brown, of 9 Milk St., Nottingham, England.
He is remembered on the St Ann's District Virtual War Memorial. At the time of the Great War the Nottingham district today regarded as St Ann’s was divided into six parishes which had been created during the nineteenth century to encourage an expanding urban population to worship. By the middle of the last century with the population of inner-city Nottingham declining and church attendance falling, most of these parishes had disappeared through amalgamation or abolition. The area’s Anglican churches were demolished and currently [2020] only St Ann’s with Emmanuel remains active as a modern church which has replaced two earlier buildings demolished in the 1970s. Collecting and researching names has proved challenging. This project has relied extensively on war memorial data. A photograph of the missing St Ann’s memorial (301 names) has recently surfaced, that from St Bartholomew (153 confirmed fatalities) survived the building’s destruction. However, similar evidence is unavailable across other parts of east Nottingham. Emmanuel’s memorial was lost during later twentieth century slum clearance and none were created at St Catharine's, St Luke's or St Mark's. As at 2020, the St Ann’s Virtual Memorial is being constructed from Nottingham Evening Post obituary entries, the CWGC Debt of Honour Register and other military sources, census data and Birth, Marriage and Death indexes. It is evident that over 500 Great War fatalities from the area encompassing modern St Ann’s are not commemorated anywhere else.