WW1
BROWNELL, LAURISTON
Studio portrait of Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) Lauriston Brownell, 12th Battalion. A grazier from Claremont, Tasmania, prior to enlistment on 3 September 1915, he embarked from Hobart aboard HMAT Ballarat on 8 August 1916 for Plymouth, England. He was transferred to the 27th Battalion on 18 November 1916 and joined his unit on the Western Front, France, on 5 February 1917. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 24 February 1917. During May and June 1917 Lt Brownell served as Aide-de-Camp to the General Officer Commanding 3nd Australian Division before rejoining his unit in the field on 1 July 1917. Lt Brownell was wounded in action at Passchendaele, Belgium, on 3 October 1917 and died of these wounds later that day in No 10 Casualty Clearing Station. He was aged 25 years. His older brother Major Herbert Percival Brownell served with the Australian Army Medical Corps in Gallipoli and on the Western Front, France, and was awarded the DSO and an MID. His younger brother, Raymond James Brownell served initially with the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade earning the Military Medal and then joined the Royal Flying Corp in March 1917 where he was awarded the Military Cross and after the war joined the RAAF rising to the rank of Air Commodore during the Second World War and being awarded Commander of the British Empire
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