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BROWN, Charles Douglas
(Service number 39942)

Aliases	Known as Douglas
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	30/11/1895	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Heretaunga
Occupation	Butter maker
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs E. BROWN (mother), 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	22nd Reinforcements, F Company
Date	13 February 1917
Transport	Mokoia
Embarked From		Destination	Plymouth, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Otago Regiment

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

Labourer

Death

Date	20 July 1964	Age	69 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 119, Plot 5
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Charles Douglas Brown, know as Douglas, was born on 30 November 1895 at Timaru, the son of James and Agnes Elizabeth (née Hall) Brown.

Sources

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

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