Leslie Robert BROWN

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BROWN, Leslie Robert

Service Number:	SX17137
Enlisted:	4 February 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	27th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Kadina, South Australia , 1 May 1914
Home Town:	Kadina, Copper Coast, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Hotel Manager
Died:	Killed in Action, New Guinea, 9 October 1943, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	Lae War Cemetery E B 4
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Moonta Mines Public School Honour Roll WW2, Richmond West Adelaide Football Club War Veterans Honour Roll

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, SX17137, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
4 Feb 1942:	Involvement Private, SX17137, 27th Infantry Battalion
4 Feb 1942:	Enlisted Adelaide South Australia
4 Feb 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX17137
4 Feb 1942:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
Date unknown:	Involvement Private, SX17137, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography

Son of Alfred Henry and Mary Elizabeth Brown; husband of Jean Brown, of Adelaide, South Australia.

HIS DUTY FEARLESSLY AND NOBLY DONE EVER REMEMBERED

Advice has been received by Mrs. L.R. Brown, of 67 Byron Place, City, that her husband Private Leslie Robert Brown, was killed in action on Otober 9. Private Brown was 29, and before enlisting was manager of the Flagstaff Hotel, City. He was captain of the West Adelaide United Football Club in the Amateur League from 1935 to 1937, and played for West Adelaide League and Association tams in 1938 and 1939.

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