Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Brown, Harold Baylie

Born 9^th May 1892 Launceston Tasmania to William George and Clara Alice Brown (nee Nash) an assistant Council Clerk with the Devonport Council he embarked Melbourne 22^nd December 1914 on board “HMAT Ceramic” with the 15^th Infantry Battalion.

He was killed in action 2^nd May 1915 on the Gallipoli Peninsula and is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey.

His brother Pte William Alder Brown (No 683) was also killed in action on the same day 2^nd May 1915 on the Gallipoli Peninsula and is commemorated in the Courtney's and Steel's Post Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey.

They were the only two sons of William and Clara Brown.

PERSONAL

Private Harold Baylie Brown of the 4th (Tasmanian) Company of the l5th Battalion, A.I.F., formerly reported missing now reported killed in action at Gallipoli early in May, 1915, was the younger son of Mr. W G. Brown, council clerk at Hamilton. He had been five years assistant council clerk at Hamilton, and for some two months acted as relieving council clerk to the Huon municipality, and while doing so obtained the position of assistant council clerk at Devonport, which position he held when he resigned to join the A.I.F. at Claremont in September 1914. His elder and only brother William A Brown, who joined the 14th Battalion (Victoria), A.I.F. at Broadmeadows camp, Melbourne, at the same time, was killed in action at Gallipoli on May 2, 1915. From the result of inquiries made, the probabilities are that the brothers were killed in action on the same day.

The North Western Advocate 1^st February 1916

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