BROWN, Alfred Charles
| Service Number: | 13263 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 13th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Stratford, Victoria, Australia, 1894 |
| Home Town: | Stratford, Wellington, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Bootmaker |
| Died: | Stratford, Victoria, Australia, 2 March 1972, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Stratford Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Stratford Holy Trinity Anglican Church Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 13 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 13263, Army Medical Corps (AIF) | |
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| 7 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, 13263, Army Medical Corps (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Karoola embarkation_ship_number: A63 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, 13263, Army Medical Corps (AIF), HMAT Karoola, Melbourne | |
| 18 Jul 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 13263, 13th Field Artillery Brigade, embarked England for Melbourne on board HT Rugia – Nursing Staff | |
| 29 Dec 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 13263, 13th Field Artillery Brigade |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Alfred Charles Brown (Service No:13263) served in the Militia for two years from 1913 as a Sergeant attached to 48th (Kooyong) Infantry Regiment, enlisting in the AIF on 13 July 1915. Private Brown was attached to Army Medical Corps, Special Reinforcements when he embarked on 7 March 1916 with his Unit from Melbourne for Marseiles (via Egypt) on board HMAT A63 Karoola. Private Brown served on the Western front and was invalided to England on 13 March 1918 for hospitalisation with Influenza. On 18 July 1918, Private Brown embarked from England for Melbourne on board HT Rugia - as Nursing Staff - and was attached to 13th Field Artillery Brigade at Discharge on 29 December 1919.
Alfred was born in Stratford, Victoria in 1895, second of seven children of Charles Brown (b1867 in Ararat, Victoria) and Elizabeth Mary Mildenhall (b1864 in Tullamarine, Victoria). Charles (a Labourer) and Elizabeth married in 1880 in Sale, Victoria and settled in Stratford where they raised their family and Charles was a Labourer.
Alfred worked as a Bootmaker in Stratford before enlisting in the AIF and, following his Discharge, settled in Traralgon, where he worked as a Bootmaker. Alfred died in 1972.
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