James Douglas Brown

Forenames

James Douglas AWMM

Surname

Brown AWMM

Also known as

Dug AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/948 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

1889 AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Te Karai, Kohukohu, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs D. Brown (mother), Queen's Buildings, Thames Street, Oamaru, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/948 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Oct 1914-03 Dec 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 8 or HMNZT 12 AWMM Vessel was Star of India or Waimana AWMM Bugler/Military AWMM Auckland Infantry Battalion AWMM Main Body AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Sergeant AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 15th (North Auckland) Company AWMM

Death

11 Apr 1918 AWMM
Age  28 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Obituary

"Mr David Brown, of Coquet street, received information from the Minister of Defence on Saturday morning that his son, Sergeant James Douglas Brown, had been killed in action in France on the 11th April. Sergeant Brown was born in Oamaru, and was twenty-nine years of age. He received his primary education at the Oamaru South School, and afterwards became a pupil of the Waitaki Boys' High School. He entered the Survey Branch of the Public Works Department, and was so engaged in the Auckland district when he enlisted. He went with the Main Body as a private in the Auckland Infantry Battalion, and received promotion to non-commissioned rank in the field. After passing through the Gallipoli campaign, including the memorable landing, he went with the New Zealand Force to France. There he saw a lot of service without receiving a hurt until January last, when he was wounded and was sent to England. Making a quick recovery, he returned, to the front, where he had not long been again engaged in the fighting when he met his death. "Dug," as he was familiarly known, took an active interest in sports, and was well known in football and rowing circles." Untitled, North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 14107, 29 April 1918, Page 4 AWMM

Memorial name

• Grevillers (New Zealand) Memorial, Grevillers British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• Waitaki Boys' High School Roll of Honour WWI 1914-1918 AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21888670
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1738557/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1738557
  Further Reference
• Untitled, North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 14107, 29 April 1918, Page 4
  https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NOT19180429.2.16
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 85
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.
• McDonald, K. C. (1958). A history of Waitaki Boys’ High School, 1883-1958. Christchurch [N.Z.] : Whitcombe and Tombs.