Ernest Frederick (Fred) BROWNE

BROWNE, Ernest Frederick

Service Number: 6302
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)
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World War 2 Service

31 Oct 1917: Enlisted 6302

World War 1 Service

Date unknown: Involvement Stoker, 6302, HMAS Huon (I)

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Biography contributed by Karen Standen

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)

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