BROWN Philip

Enlisted in Brisbane
Labourer before enlistment
Father: Alfred Edward Brown
18 years 11 months
5ft 6 1/2 "
120lbs
Medium complexion
Hazel eyes
Brown hair
C of E

Married: Alice Eliza DOCKERILL on 8 February 1919 at the Holy Trinity Church, Birchfield.UK

The Chronicle 17 October 1919, page 5 reports that Private Phil Brown has returned home.
Wounded with gas in France

Additional Information:

BROWN, PHILIP
7475, Private, 15th Battalion/42nd Battalion, AIF.
b. 1898 Ipswich, Qld.
Enlisted: 02.03.1917 Brisbane, Qld.
d. 13.01.1934
Next of Kin: Albert Edward Brown -Brother.

Phil Brown was a labourer before enlistment and the son of Alfred Charles Brown and Alice Ball. He enlisted one month before his 19th birthday and stood 5 feet 6½ inches tall with hazel eyes and brown hair. He departed from Sydney on HMAT A20 Hororata 14 June 1917. Philip was gassed in France during the conflict and sent to hospital in England to recover. He married Alice Eliza Dockerill 8 February 1919 at the Holy Trinity Church in Birchfield, UK. A couple of hundred cheering and applauding people gathered at Nambour railway station on a rainy-looking evening of October 1919 to welcome home Private Len Chadwick and Private Phil Brown. The town band played a selection of music and afterwards the men were conveyed to Mr. Chadwick’s home for a private gathering. When Mr. Brown’s wife came to Australia is not recorded.
They took up farming at Rosemount and had lived there for some years when Phil Brown, his wife and three children went for an outing along the Yandina-Coolum Beach Road with Mr. R.E.A. Elliott in his car. Mr. Elliott, who was driving, was momentarily distracted from his concentration on the road and overturned the car into a roadside drainage ditch. The driver and all passengers escaped injury except Phil Brown, who was trapped in the car and drowned. It was a tragic end to the man’s life. Philip Brown has been remembered on the Maroochy Shire Honour Roll, Shire Chambers, Bury Street, Nambour; Nambour (Maroochy Shire) Roll of Honour Scroll, Private Collection, Nambour (this scroll was available for sale to the public after the war).
Sources: National Archives of Australia; Nambour Chronicle 17 October 1919 p.5.; 11 January 1935 p.4; 26 October 1934 p.9;Adopt-a-Digger.

From the Genealogy Sunshine Coast publication
“AND THEIR NAMES SHALL LIVE FOREVER…”
REMEMBERING MILITARY PERSONNEL IN THE OLD MAROOCHY SHIRE CEMETERIES – BOOK 2, THE SMALL CEMETERIES (DIDDILLIBAH, EUMUNDI, GHEERULLA, MAPLETON, OLD NAMBOUR, YANDINA)

Maroochy Shire Honor Roll, Shire Chambers, Bury Street, Nambour

Nambour (Maroochy Shire) Roll of Honor Scroll, Private Collection, Nambour (this scroll was available for sale to the public after the war)