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BROWN, Edward
(Service number 34020)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	27/01/1888	Place of Birth	Dunedin

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Butter maker
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs Agnes BROWN (mother), Eversley Road, Waimataitai, Timaru
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	21st Reinforcements, F Company
Date	19 January 1917
Transport	Waitemata
Embarked From		Destination	Plymouth, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Entrenching Battalion

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	6 August 1930	Age	43 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 103, Plot 3
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Edward Brown was born on 27 January 1888 at Dunedin, the son of James and Agnes Elizabeth (née Hall) Brown.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [02 December 2016]; Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [02 December 2016]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [29 December 2016]

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