BROWN, George
| Service Number: | 1025 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 September 1914, An original member of D Company |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 6th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Newbury, Victoria, Australia, 1887 |
| Home Town: | Newbury, Moorabool, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Garlick's Lead State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 16 August 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Puchevillers British Cemetery, France Plot II, Row A, Grave No. 63. GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Trentham District Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1025, 6th Infantry Battalion, An original member of D Company | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 1025, 6th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 1025, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
George Brown was the eldest of four sons of Thomas Bertram and Emma Amelia Brown of Trentham, Victoria. Two of the brothers died and one was made a prisoner of war during 1916 and 1917.
George’s youngest brother, 5056 Pte. Clarence Walter Brown 46th Battalion AIF, died of wounds inflicted at the Battle of Messines on 14 June 1917, aged 19.
Another brother, 3491 Frederick Brown of the 2nd Tunnelling Company was made a prisoner of war in Germany during July 1917.
George enlisted in 1914 and was an original member of the 6th Battalion. He served at the Anzac landing and was shot in the leg during that first week. He was evacuated to Malta and returned to Gallipoli in June 1915. He was again evacuated with dysentery during July 1915 and was sent to England.
He rejoined his battalion during early 1916 and suffered severe multiple gunshot wounds at Pozieres on 19 August 1916. He died the same day in the 3rd Casualty Clearing Station.
The following article appeared in the Kyneton Guardian the day after George Brown had died of wounds in France.
“Mrs T. Brown, of Newbury, near Trentham. has four sons serving the Empire. George Brown. 2S years old enlisted in the First Expeditionary Force, and went to Gallipoli. where he was wounded. He was invalided to England, and has returned to the firing line in France. William Brown. 23 years of age. enlisted in 1915 and is at present in Egypt. Frederick Brown, 25 years of age. enlisted in Western Australia in 1915, but is in camp in Melbourne at present. Clarence Brown. 18 years of age. enlisted in January, 1915, and is at present in Egypt. The above, with Mrs Brown's portrait, appeared in the “Argus” of Wednesday, under the heading “Mother of Men.”
Mrs. Brown wrote a letter to Base Records on 20 August 1917.
"Dear Sir,
I take the liberty of writing these few lines hoping you will make some enquiries for me about my son that is missing since the 10th July No 3491 Sapper Fred Brown No.2 Tunnelling Coy. AIF France.
I would be so much obliged to you if you could tell me something, his poor hart broken mother, Mrs. T. Brown.
There is four of my sons went to the front and two are dead, the eldest and the youngest. The oldest was 1025 Pte G. Brown 6th Battalion AIF and the other one was the youngest 5056 Pte C.W. Brown 46th Battalion AIF, he died on the 13th June 1917 of this year only two months and my son that is missing was only last month on the 10th July. We have still one boy there I wish I could get him home now that he is all we have left and we are only two old people. Yours respectfully, Mrs. T. Brown."
A surviving brother, 1385 William John Brown 12th Field Artillery Brigade, was returned to Australia in early 1918, on the orders of the Defence Department, after two of his brothers had died and one was a POW.