Howard Victor BROWN

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Service Number:	VX5012
Enlisted:	20 October 1939, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Last Rank:	Captain
Last Unit:	7th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 10 May 1912
Home Town:	Geelong, Greater Geelong, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	French Polisher
Died:	Accidental, New Guinea, 7 October 1944, aged 32 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea CWGC Grave No: Section A, Plot 3, Row F, Grave 2. Inscription: "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life."
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Captain, VX5012
20 Oct 1939:	Enlisted Geelong, Victoria, Australia
20 Oct 1939:	Enlisted VX5012, 7 Infantry Battalion AMF
7 Oct 1944:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Captain, 7th Infantry Battalion, killed in aircraft crash, New Guinea.

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7 Australian Infantry

Rank - Captain

Son of Alexander and Ethel Mary Brown, of Geelong, Victoria; Husband of Ellen Joan Brown of Anglesea, Victoria