BROWN, Harold Leslie
| Service Number: | SX8025 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 July 1940, Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Kadina, South Australia, 3 July 1903 |
| Home Town: | Torrensville, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Norwood Central Primary School, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Motor Mechanic |
| Died: | Adelaide, South Australia, 17 September 1983, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia The South Australian Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: | Kadina Memorial High School WW2 Honour Roll |
World War 2 Service
| 5 Jul 1940: | Involvement Private, SX8025 | |
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| 5 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA | |
| 5 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX8025 | |
| 7 Nov 1940: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX8025, 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion, embarked Adelaide for Middle East on board HMT Stratheden | |
| 3 Sep 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX8025, 2nd/48th Infantry Battalion, embarked Middle East for Melbourne on board V66 Troja | |
| 5 Feb 1943: | Discharged | |
| 5 Feb 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX8025 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
One of five siblings and numerous cousins to serve in WWII, Private Harold Leslie Brown (Service No:SX8025) enlisted in the AIF on 5 July 1940 - graded Mechanic, re graded Fitter - and was attached to 2/48 Infantry Battalion on 7 November 1940 when he embarked with his Unit from Adelaide bound for the Middle East on board HMT Stratheden. Private Brown returned from the Middle East on 3 September 1942 on board V66 Troja, and was attached to 2/48 Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 5 February 1943.
Les was born in New Town in Kadina, South Australia in 1903, eldest of six children of Harold Henry Sidney Brown (b1882 at South Hummocks, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia) and Mary Anne Kempster (b1884 in Magill, South Australia). Harold (a Labourer in Kadina) and Mary married in 1903 in New Town, where they lived before settling in Adelaide by 1912. Harold worked as a Labourer, and for the Tramways as a Conductor and Motor Man.
Les worked as a Motor Mechanic in Adelaide, where, in 1940, he married his first wife Florence (Florrie) Mabel Bradman (nee Waldman; b1894 in Surrey England) - Florrie was a Leather Machinist when she immigrated in 1912, arriving in Adelaide on board the Ballarat. Les and Florrie settled in Adelaide, where they raised their family and Les worked as a Mechanic. Following Florrie's death in 1957, Les remarried to Beatrice Lily Tovey (nee Schulz; b1906 in Wilmington, South Australia). Beatrice died in 1967 and Les in 1983.
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