Reginald Claude (Reg) BROWNE

BROWNE, Reginald Claude

Service Number: 4854
Enlisted: 4 May 1915
Last Rank: Stoker
Last Unit: HMAS Huon (I)
Born: Wollongong, NSW, 23 May 1899
Home Town: Port Kembla, Wollongong, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Illness (Pneumonic influenza), Genoa, Italy, 26 October 1918, aged 19 years
Cemetery: Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa
I. C. 37., Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa, Italy
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Crib Point R.A.N. Destroyer Flotilla HR, Crib Point RAN WW1 Roll of Honour (Panel 2)
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Biography contributed by Karen Standen

Son of Frederick William Powell Browne and Susan Matilda Browne, of Port Kembla, New South Wales. Born at Wollongong, New South Wales.

ROLL OF HONOR.
BROWNE. — October 22nd, 1918, at Genoa, Italy, of influenza, Ernest Frederick (Fred), of the Royal Australian Navy, aged 23 years. Also at Genoa Hospital, Italy, October 26th, 1918, Reginald Claude Browne (Reg), of the Royal Australian Navy, aged 19 years, dearly loved sons of Susan and Frederick Browne, of Port Kembla, and brothers of Dorothy, Jessie, and Elsie. South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus, 1 November 1918 (nla.gov.au) (nla.gov.au)

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