Profile

BROWN, Herbert Ernest
(Service number 49593)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Ploughman
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Alexander BROWN, sen, (father), Morven, South Canterbury
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	27th Reinforcements Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company
Date	12 June 1917
Transport	Tahiti
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Devonport, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	20 December 1947	Age	58 yrs
Place of Death	Morven
Cause
Notices	Timaru Herald, 22 December 1947
Memorial or Cemetery	Waimate Old Cemetery
Memorial Reference	New Presbyterian Area, Plot 000506
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Herbert Ernest BROWN. Herbert was accorded RSA honours at his funeral.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [21 July 2014]; Waimate Old Cemetery burial records (Waimate District Council) [22 August 2014]; Headstone transcript Waimate Old Cemetery (South Canterbury Branch NZSG Cemetery Records microfiche) [22 August 2014]; Timaru Herald, 22 December 1947 (Timaru District Library) [22 August 2014]

External Links

Researched and Written by

Currently Assigned to

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License unless otherwise stated.

Tell us more

Do you have information that could be added to this story? Or related images that you are happy to share? Submit them here!