BROWNE, Ernest Frederick
Service Number: | 6302 |
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Enlisted: | 31 October 1917 |
Last Rank: | Stoker |
Last Unit: | HMAS Huon (I) |
Born: | Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, 30 August 1895 |
Home Town: | Port Kembla, Wollongong, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Illness (Pneumonic influenza), Genoa, Italy, 22 October 1918, aged 23 years |
Cemetery: |
Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa I. C. 22., Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa, Italy |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Crib Point R.A.N. Destroyer Flotilla HR, Crib Point RAN WW1 Roll of Honour (Panel 2) |
World War 2 Service
31 Oct 1917: | Enlisted 6302 |
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World War 1 Service
Date unknown: | Involvement Stoker, 6302, HMAS Huon (I) |
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Son of Frederick William Powell Browne and Susan Matilda Browne, of Port Kembla, New South Wales
ROLL OF HONOR.
BROWNE. — October 22nd, 1918, at Genoa, Italy, of influenza, Ernest Frederick (Fred), of the Royal Australian Navy, aged 23 years. Also at Genoa Hospital, Italy, October 26th, 1918, Reginald Claude Browne (Reg), of the Royal Australian Navy, aged 19 years, dearly loved sons of Susan and Frederick Browne, of Port Kembla, and brothers of Dorothy, Jessie, and Elsie. Young lives nobly ended. South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus, 1 November 1918 (nla.gov.au)