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Gnr. Walter Ernest Brown VC, DCM.
Royal Australian Army 2/15 Field Regiment. Royal Australian Artillery
from:Carlton, New South Wales, Australia
(d.28th Feb 1942)
Walter Brown died on 28th of February 1942 aged 55, he is commemorated on the Kranji War Cemetery in Singapore. He was the son of Francis Samuel and Agnes Brown, husband of Maude Brown, of Carlton, New South Wales, Australia. He had also served in the Grear War and was awarded the Victoria Cross.
The citation in the London Gazette for 16th August, 1918, gives the following details:-
"The company to which Corporal Brown was attached carried out during the night a minor operation, capturing a small system of enemy trenches. Early the next morning the occupants of the newly captured trench were persistently sniped at from an enemy strong-point about 70 yards away. Corporal Brown, on his own initiative made a dash towards that post, which he reached in spite of machine-gun fire. Threatening the occupants with a Mills grenade, he induced them all to come out, and, through further machine-gun fire, brought back prisoner one officer and eleven other ranks."