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• Name BROWN
• Initials S
• First name SAMUEL
• Place of birth County Londonderry
• Country Northern Ireland
• Last residence Leeston, Canterbury, New Zealand
• Family Son of Thomas and Martha Jane Brown, of Mulderg, Claudy, Co. Derry, Ireland.
• Profession Farm hand

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Trentham, 13 May 1915
• Service number 6/2954
  
• Rank Corporal
• Regiment and unit 1st Bn. Canterbury Regiment
• Division - Brigade 2nd Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division New Zealand Division
• National force N.Z.E.F.
• Other data related to military career EMBARKATION: 9 October 1915, Wellington

Death

• Wounded 12 October 1917
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds in abdomen and left knee, received at the Battle of Passchendaele Ridge, at
• Date of death 21 October 1917
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXV - F - 15A

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