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BROWN, Robert Maxwell
Service Numbers: | 3699, S75300 |
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Enlisted: | 10 August 1915, 12th Reinforcements |
Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
Last Unit: | Volunteer Defence Corps (SA) |
Born: | Mount Gambier, South Australia, 4 October 1895 |
Home Town: | Mount Gambier, Mount Gambier, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Painter |
Died: | Tusmore, South Australia, 30 August 1961, aged 65 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia General AC, Path 8, Grave 512 |
Memorials: | Mount Gambier Knight & Cleve Pictorial Honour Rolls |
World War 1 Service
10 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3699, 10th Infantry Battalion, 12th Reinforcements | |
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2 Dec 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3699, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: RMS Malwa embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
8 Aug 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 3699, 1st Divisional Signal Company, "The Last Hundred Days" |
World War 2 Service
10 Apr 1942: | Involvement Lieutenant, S75300, Volunteer Defence Corps (SA), Homeland Defence - Militia and non deployed forces, 9th Battalion VDC | |
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10 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lieutenant, S75300 | |
10 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Lieutenant, Volunteer Defence Corps (SA), Keswick Barracks, SA | |
12 Dec 1945: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Steve Larkins
Identified on the Mount Gambier Pictorial Honour Roll and cross matched with his WW2 service in the VDC
Mother, Mrs E Brown, Wehl Street, Clarville, Mt Gambier, South Australia
See the link to his notes on his early life - sidebar
Last known address 39 Kennaway Street TUSMORE Married to Louisa
Biography contributed by Elsa Reuter
Biography written by Maxwell Spurling, Scotch College, SA attached as a document. Winning entry for 2015 Premier's Anzac Spirit School Prize.
Photograph collection of Robert Maxwell Brown
Courtesy of Max Spurling
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