BRAUND, George Frederick
| Service Numbers: | Commissioned Officer, Commissioned officer - no service number |
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| Enlisted: | 15 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant Colonel |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bideford, Devon, England, 13 July 1866 |
| Home Town: | Armidale, Armidale Dumaresq, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Bideford Grammar School, Devon, England |
| Occupation: | General merchant, Member of Parliament |
| Died: | Killed In Action, Gallipoli, 4 May 1915, aged 48 years |
| Cemetery: |
Beach Cemetery - ANZAC Cove Plot I, Row A, Grave No. 40 |
| Memorials: | Armidale Lieut Col George Frederick Braund MLA Memorial Honour Roll, Armidale Memorial Fountain, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Sydney Legislative Assembly Chamber Memorial Plaque |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Lieutenant Colonel, Commissioned Officer, 2nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: |
Embarked
AIF WW1, Lieutenant Colonel, Commissioned officer - no service number, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' |
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| 25 Apr 1915: |
Involvement
AIF WW1, Lieutenant Colonel, Commissioned officer - no service number, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: 2 Battalion awm_rank: Lieutenant Colonel awm_died_date: 1915-05-04 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
George Frederick BRAUND was born in Bideford, Devon, England on 13th July, 1866
His parents were Frederick BRAUND & Ellen DOIDGE who married in Bideford in 1864
He married Lalla Robina BLYTHE in St Matthews Anglican Church, Drayton, Queensland on 30th January 1895 - 4 known children, Frederick Sidney George, Ellen, Arthur Geoffrey & Phyllis Robina
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Military History Society of New South Wales
Lieutenant Colonel George Braund from Armidale NSW was a serving member of the NSW parliament when he enlisted for World War I. He was the first member of an Australian parliament to do so. Braund was appointed to raise and train the 2nd Infantry Battalion AIF and became its commander in August 1914. On 25 April 1915 he landed his troops at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli. After midnight on 4 May 1915, while returning to brigade headquarters, he took a short cut through scrub and apparently failed to hear a challenge from a sentry, who shot him dead. He was one of only two serving Australian members of parliament to die in the Great War.
Biography
George Frederick Braund was the inaugural Commanding Officer of the 2nd Infantry Battalion.
He was to be an early member of what became a large group of Commanding Officers killed in action during WW1.
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