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BROWN, Alexander
(Service number 7/1822)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank	Trooper

Birth

Date	08/08/1891	Place of Birth	Dunedin

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Waihaorunga, Waihao Downs
Occupation	Farm hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs M. BROWN (mother), Rawickan, Milton, Otago
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	8th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Date	13 November 1915
Transport	Willochra or Tofua
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	8th Canterbury Mounted Rifles

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

Farmer

Death

Date	17 February 1962	Age	70 years
Place of Death	Milton
Cause
Notices	Timaru Herald, 19 February 1962
Memorial or Cemetery	Fairfax Lawn Cemetery, Milton
Memorial Reference	Block 19, Plot 57
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Alexander Brown, 7/1822, was the son of Alexander and Mary Brown (née Purves), late of Akatore (1962).

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [18 April 2017]; Fairfax Cemetery Milton headstone transcription (South Canterbury Branch NZSG cemetery records) [20 April 2017]

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