BROWN, Malcolm Horace
| Service Number: | 2123 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 April 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Jondaryan, Queensland, Australia, 1883 |
| Home Town: | Northbridge, Willoughby, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Ipswich and Toowoomba Schools, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Engine Driver |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 6 August 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Lone Pine Cemetery, ANZAC Row M, Grave 7 Headstone inscription reads: He did his job nobly & was the best of sons & brothers, Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Apr 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2123, 4th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW | |
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| 16 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 2123, 4th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Karoola embarkation_ship_number: A63 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 2123, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Karoola, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Octavius Gilbert Brown and Ellen Sophia Keene Brown of 'Edithville', Harden Avenue, North Bridge, North Sydney, NSW. Octavius also enlisted in late 1915 and returned to Australia in March 1917 when he was discharged as medically unfit. Area of service was Rabaul, New Guinea
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
The 155 men of the 6th reinforcements to the 4th Battalion embarked from Sydney on 16 June 1915. They stopped at Fremantle on the way and they disembarked in Egypt on the 21st July and only two weeks later the bulk of them landed the at Anzac to reinforce the 4th Battalion. No time for training.
They landed at Gallipoli on the 4 August 1915. Malcolm Brown was killed in action 2 days later at Lone Pine.
After the battle, Malcolm was initially reported as missing. However, a Court of Inquiry was held and it was established on the 22nd April 1916 that he had been killed in action on the 6th August 1915. He had been on Gallipoli for two days, and had been a soldier for just three months.
The inquiry lasted several months before it made its finding. In the meantime, his family, particularly his mother, had been told that he was missing. They received notification of his death in a cable dated the 13th June 1916. The following reports were received and used to establish the findings of the enquiry.
T.B. Casey of the 3rd Battalion made a statement and the following was recorded:- “The witness said he knew a Brown with red hair and saw him before the charge on August 6th, and afterwards heard from his mates that he was killed. Witness came over with Brown on the same ship from Australia.”
Laurence Richard Hornsey, of the 4th Battalion stated:- “Informant states that on August 6th 1915, at Lonesome Pine, Gallipoli, Pte Brown was killed in the charge, and that he saw his body afterwards. He was blown up by a shell.”
G. A Horbury, B company 4th Battalion, stated:- “Witness was in the same reinforcement as Brown who was a very fair headed man, known as ‘nugget’. Witness states that Brown was killed in the charge at Lone Pine. Witness actually saw him dead on the parapet of the Turkish trenches. This was on the 8th August 1915. Witness helped to bury him in a safe place there. Witness is sure it was Brown.”
After the war, in 1921, the War Graves Unit returned to Gallipoli to give men a decent burial. Where possible, identification was made and they were buried in their own grave, but if identification was not possible, then they were reburied together. Malcolm’s Brown's body was recovered, they found a watch in his pocket which bore his initials. They were able to identify his body from this watch, and today he is buried in Row M grave 7 at the Lone Pine Cemetery.