Military History

Embarked Fremantle per HMAT ‘Hororata’ A20 for Egypt 26.4.1915.
Roll Rank Private.
Unit Rank 3rd Reinforcement, 10th Light Horse Regiment.
Brown disembarked at Suez with the 3rd Reinforcement 10th Light Horse. He was admitted to Hospital. On his discharge he was taken on Strength with his unit 16.5.1915. He embarked with Mediterranean Expeditionary Force for Gallipoli 13.7.1915. Brown was wounded in action at ANZAC- Walker’s Ridge 12.8.1915, with a bullet wound to his left thigh. He embarked on the Hospital Ship ‘Dunbar’ for Malta 12.8.1915. He was admitted 3rd Australian General Hospital 21.8.1916 and was transferred by Hospital Ship to England with a disability; from the ship he was admitted to King George’s Hospital. He was transferred to 5th Training Regiment 23.10.1916. He re-embarked for Egypt and was transferred to 3rd Light Horse Brigade Machine Gun Section in Egypt 15.11.1916. He fought with the 3rd Light Horse Machine Gun Section at Raffa. He was again wounded in action with a gunshot wound to his left foot 9.1.1917. On discharge he was transferred to the Imperial School of Instruction at Zeitun 25.2.1917. Brown was hospitalised with a disability 13.10.1918. Following demobilisation he embarked for Australia.
Embarked Kantara per HT ’Oxfordshire’ for Australia 10.7.1919.
Returned/Disembarked at Fremantle 4.8.1919.
Discharged 28.11.1919.
Final Rank Trooper/ Private, 10th Light Horse Regiment, 3rd Light Horse Brigade.
Medical Condition NR.
Awards and Medals 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Photos Troops being towed ashore at Gallipoli April 1915. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM A02781
              Stretcher bearers at Gallipoli. Photographer unknown, photograph AWM A05784
              3rd Machine Gun Squadron 1917 at Khurbetha-Ibn-Harith. Photographer F. Hurley, photograph source AWM B01489

Information Source
AWM A02781. Troops being towed ashore at Gallipoli April 1915. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM  A05784 .Stretcher bearers at Gallipoli. Photographer unknown, photograph  sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM  B01489. 3rd Machine Gun Squadron 1917 at Khurbetha-Ibn-Harith. Photographer F. Hurley, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
Australian War Memorial Embarkation Roll- Stanley Percival Angove Brown
Guildford Grammar School Honour Roll
NAA: B2455 Brown S P A 935



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