BROWN, Charles Augustus
| Service Number: | N100165 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | 2 Recruit Training Battalion (Jungle Warfare) |
| Born: | Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia, 15 June 1897 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Salesman |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 22 January 1978, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Macquarie Park Cemetery & Crematorium, North Ryde, New South Wales |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 8 Jul 1940: | Enlisted N100165 | |
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| 21 Jan 1949: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Captain, N100165, 2 Recruit Training Battalion (Jungle Warfare) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Charles was the third of five children of Charles Brown Snr (b1871 in Adelong (Gundagai), NSW) and Ellen Josephine McAuliffe (b1870 in St Laurence, QLD). Charles Snr (a Machinist) and Ellen married in 1893 in Charters Towers, QLD. By 1918 the family had moved to Bathurst, NSW where Charles Snr worked as a Labourer before moving to Brisbane, QLD.
Charles had worked as a Boat Builder and Carter in Brisbane, QLD and served in WWI (Sergeant; Service No:589). In 1920 he married Ellen (Nell) Susan Stewart (b1898 in Brisbane, QLD) in Brisbane where Charles worked as a Carter before moving to Sydney NSW in 1930. Charles was a Furniture Buyer and Salesman in Sydney NSW when he enlisted in the ACMF in July 1940 (Lieutenant, Captain: Service Nos:N100165/NP9300) and was attached to 2 Reconnaissance Training Battalion when he was Discharged in January 1949.
Charles and Nell settled in Randwick, Sydney NSW where Charles worked as a Salesman. Nell died in 1964 and Charles in 1978.
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