BROWN, Andrew
| Service Number: | 2208 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 July 1916, 3 years, Senior Cadets, 3 years Engineers, 6 mths RANR |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 33rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 6 October 1895 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Cerebral haemorrhage, Newcastle Hospltal, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 2 June 1924, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW GENERAL-44. 53. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Jul 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2208, 33rd Infantry Battalion, 3 years, Senior Cadets, 3 years Engineers, 6 mths RANR | |
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| 24 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 2208, 33rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 2208, 33rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Sydney | |
| 16 Oct 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2208, 33rd Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, MU - GSW left elbow, Armentières, France, 3.12.1916 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
99 years ago today, on the Tuesday afternoon of the 3rd June 1924, Private Andrew Brown, referred to as Snow, 33rd Battalion (Reg No-2208), labourer from 9 Alfred Street, Newcastle, New South Wales, was laid to rest with a military funeral at Sandgate Cemetery, age 28. Not married. GENERAL-44. 53.
Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 6th October 1895 to Andrew and Eliza Brown, Snow was a stoker in the Royal Australian Navy when he enlisted on the 20th July 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A68 Anchises on the 24th August 1916.
Wounded in action - 3.12.1916 (GSW left elbow, Armentières, France).
Invalided to England 8.12.1916.
Snow was invalided home on the 18th September 1917, being discharged medically unfit (GSW left elbow) on the 16th October 1917.
Mr. Brown’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name possibly inscribed on the Cooks Hill St. John's Anglican Church Honor Roll.
I have placed poppies at Snow’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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