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 Brown

Name on Board WL Brown
Name on Service
Records
  Brown
Enlistment Age 26.1
Occupation Fitters Labourer
Place of Birth Ballarat, Vic
Next of Kin William Alfred and Mary Brown
Address Douglas Pde, North Williamstown, Vic
Marital Status
Enlistment Date 12/07/1915
Service No. 3042
Enlistment Place Melbourne, Vic
Embarkation Place Melbourne
Embarkation Date
Embarkation Ship
Unit on Embarkation 5th Australian Infantry Battalion
Date of Death 26/09/1917
Unit on Death 5th Australian Infantry Battalion
Rank on Death Corporal
Cause of Death KIA
Place of Wounding/
Death
Initially buried close to where he was killed in Belguim (no known grave)
Cemetery or Memorial Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, West-Vlaanderen, Flanders, Belgium
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