BROWN, Arthur Scott
(Service number 5918)
| First Rank | Private | Last Rank | Private |
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Birth
| Date | *1882 | Place of Birth | Waimate |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | 10 May 1916 | Age | 33 years 6 months |
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| Address at Enlistment | 46 Samuel Street, St Peters, New South Wales, Australia | ||
| Occupation | Labourer | ||
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| Marital Status | Single | ||
| Next of Kin | Miss May Scott BROWN (sister), 46 Samuel Street, St Peters, New South Wales, Australia | ||
Military Service
| Served with | Australian Imperial Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | Australian Imperial Force, 41st Battalion | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | 19th Battalion, 16th Reinforcement | ||
| Date | 7 October 1916 | ||
| Transport | Ceramic | ||
| Embarked From | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | Destination | |
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Award Circumstances and Date
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Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 1942? | Age | 58 years |
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| Place of Death | New South Wales | ||
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Biographical Notes
Arthur Scott Brown was born in 1882 at Waimate, the son of Edward Scott and Isabella (née Maxfield) Brown, one of three children born at Waimate. He enlisted on 0 September 915 in the Australian Imperial Force, but the papers were lost and he had to be re-attested. He returned to Australia in 1918. The family went from New Zealand to Tasmania, and there Arthur's sister and next-of-kin, May Scott Brown was born in 1888. edward and Isabella had married in Launceston, Tasmania in 1867 and both were to die there in the 1890s.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [09 July 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs)
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