Donald Melville Wood Brown

Forenames

Donald Melville Wood AWMM

Surname

Brown AWMM

Also known as

Donald Brown AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/3565 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Religion

Presbyterian, Christian AWMM

Birth

21 Aug 1900 AWMM

Date of birth

21 August 1895

Public - Andrew - Researcher - 6 May 2025 - Military personnel file.

Place of birth

Sydney, NSW

Public - Andrew - Researcher - 6 May 2025 - Military personnel file.

Address before enlistment

Pre 28 Oct 1915 AWMM 39 Nelson Street, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs Alice E. Brown (mother), 39 Nelson Street, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 08 Jan 1916 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• Battle of the Somme AWMM
• Battle of the Somme AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/3565 AWMM

Military service

Attached 1st Australian Tunnelling Company 3 May 1916 AWMM

Medals and Awards

• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• Cardinal Mercier Patriotism and Endurance medal AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 28 Oct 1915 AWMM
Age  15 AWMM
Seaman AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 08 Jan 1916-08 Feb 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 37 AWMM Vessel was Maunganui AWMM Private AWMM 9th Reinforcements Auckland Infantry Battalion, A Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 foot 10 inches AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  10 stone AWMM
• Hair colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Black AWMM
• Eye colour, Unknown Period AWMM
  Blue AWMM
• Hospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
  Gassed AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Company AWMM

Death

15 Sept 1916 AWMM
Age  16 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France AWMM X. C. 25. AWMM

Memorial name

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Papers Past. Digital New Zealand Newspapers.
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
  Sources Used
• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21892151
  Further Reference
• Australian List. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14174, 16 December 1916, Page 9
  http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=PBH19161216.2.50&srpos
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/552692/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/552692
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Information kindly provided by family
• Poverty Bay Herald
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  21: 14
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• HMNZT 37. Quinn's Post. New Zealand troopship magazine. As transport no. 37 the "Maunganui" carried the 9th Reinforcements, departing New Zealand 8 January 1916 and arriving Suez 8 February 1916. O.C. Troops was Capt. W.T. Joll and Ship's Master Capt. L. Worrall.
• 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.