Thomas Gordon BROWNING

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BROWNING, Thomas Gordon

Service Number:	WX22247
Enlisted:	5 January 1943
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/24th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Wagin, Western Australia, 18 April 1916
Home Town:	Northam, Northam, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Mill Hand
Died:	Northam, Western Australia, 11 December 1990, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Northam Cemetery
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World War 2 Service

5 Jan 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX22247, 2nd/24th Infantry Battalion
23 Dec 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, WX22247, 2nd/24th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Thomas Gordon Browning (Service No:WX22247) enlisted in the Australian Army on 5 January 1943 and was attached to 35 Australian Infantry Training Battalion. On 6 July 1944 Private Browning transferred to 2/24 Infantry Battalion, and was Discharged on 23 December 1944.

The third of six children, Thomas was born in 1916 in Wagin WA to Gordon (Bill) Charles Browning (b1889 in Tallagatta, Victoria) and Maude Elizabeth McBride (b1893 in Northam, WA). Bill had moved with his parents and siblings to Northam WA in 1897 and was a Labourer/Plate Layer with WAGR in 1912 when he and Maude married in Northam. Bill served with the AIF in WWI (Service No:6298) and he and Maude settled in Northam where they raised their family and Bill worked for WAGR.

In 1937 Thomas was a Mill Hand in Northam WA when he married Gladys May Hagerty (b1917 in Northam, WA). By 1949 Thomas and Gladys had Divorced - Gladys was living in Kalgoorlie and working as a Laundress and Thomas was in Northam working as a Mill Hand. In 1951 Thomas remarried to Hanorah Jane Deering (b1919 in Perth, WA). Thomas and Hanorah settled in Northam where they raised their family and Thomas worked as a Mill Hand. Thomas died in 1989 and Hanorah in 2008.

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