William Harold Browne

Forenames

William Harold AWMM

Surname

Browne AWMM

Also known as

Bill Browne AWMM

Service number

WWI 6/2489 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Wesleyan, Christian AWMM

Birth

18 Mar 1890 AWMM

Address before enlistment

Pre 18 Apr 1915 AWMM 1 George Street, Rocky Nook, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs Gertrude Browne (mother), George Street, Rocky Nook, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 13 Jun 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• Battle of Polderhoek Spur (December 3rd) AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 6/2489 AWMM

Military service

6 years G.A.C. Rifles & 3rd Regiment AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 18 Apr 1915 AWMM
Age  25 AWMM
Driver/Military AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 HMNZT 24 or HMNZT 25 or HMNZT 26 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui or Tahiti or Aparima AWMM Private AWMM Canterbury Infantry Battalion AWMM 5th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Wounded 21/12/1915 -Admin to Hospital Ship 22?/12/1915 , transferred to Bombay Pres Hospital, Alexandria 25/12/1915 AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Discharged to duty 5/1/1916. AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Lance Corporal/Military AWMM
Canterbury Infantry Regiment AWMM

Death

5 Dec 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM LV. D. 24. AWMM

Memorial name

• Family Grave Memorial, Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland AWMM
• Kingsland Methodist Trinity Church Roll of Honour 1914-1918, 400 New North Road, Kingsland, Auckland 1021 AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21889054
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/462100/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/462100
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 87
• Western Leader
  Western Leader 9 May 2003.
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 1: Includes portrait
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Scadden, J. (2018). Broken branches : New Zealand families who lost three or more children in the Great War.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.