Adolf Percy BROWN

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BROWN, Adolf Percy

Service Number:	Q54559
Enlisted:	11 February 1941
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	15 Garrison Battalion (QLD)
Born:	Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia, 5 March 1896
Home Town:	Innisfail, Cassowary Coast, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Wardsman
Died:	Innisfail, Queensland, Australia, 2 July 1988, aged 92 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Innisfail Cemetery, Qld
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World War 2 Service

11 Feb 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, Q54559, 15 Garrison Battalion (QLD)
14 Oct 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, Q54559, 15 Garrison Battalion (QLD)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Corporal Adolf Percy Brown MM (Service No:Q54559) served with the ACMF from 11 February 1941 to 19 October 1944 with 15 Garrison Battalion. Corporal Brown MM had served in WWI (Service No:5342) and was awarded the Military Medal in 1918.

Born in 1896 in Charters Towers QLD, Adolf was the third of four children of Adolph Charles Brown (aka Charles; b1857 in Bockham, Germany) and Jane Mitchell (b1866 in Rockhampton, QLD). Charles had immigrated in 1862, arriving in Maryborough, QLD on board the Glamis. Charles (a Miner) and Jane married in 1883 in Charters Towers, QLD where they settled and Charles worked as a Miner and Engine Driver. The family later moved to Innisfail, QLD where Charles worked as an Engine Driver.

Adolf worked as a Station Hand in Charters Towers before serving with the AIF in WWI, and was a Labourer in Innisfail, QLD in 1925 when he married Evelyn Maud Robson (b1900 in Laidley, QLD). Adolf and Evelyn settled in Innisfail where they raised their family and Adolf worked as a Hospital Wardsman. Evelyn died in 1986 and Adolf in 1988.

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