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• Name BROWN
• Initials JE
• First name JAMES ERNEST
• Place of birth North Melbourne
• Country Victoria, Australia
• Last residence North Melbourne
• Family Son of James and Ellen Brown, of 36, Peel St., North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• Profession Cycle builder

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted 14 July 1915, Melbourne, Victoria
• Service number 598
• Rank Private
• Medals 1914/15 Star Medal, Victory Medal, British War Medal
• Regiment and unit 31st Bn. Australian Infantry
• Division - Brigade 8th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 5th Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarked Melbourne 9 November 1915; to France 20 June 1917

Death

• Wounded 24 October 1917
• Type of wounds Died of multiple shrapnel wounds on right knee, abdomen penetrated in n°3 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 26 October 1917
• Died at the age of 21
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXII - A - 19

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