Cyril Ivan BROWN

Regimental number36251
Date of birth15 November 1892
Place of birthPatea
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationSoldier
Next of kinWife, Mrs C I Brown, c/o W Brown, Laery and Co (Limited), Wellington
Rank on embarkationLieutenant
Unit nameNew Zealand Expeditionary Force, 24th Reinforcements (2nd Draft), New Zealand Field Artillery
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington on board Pakeha on 26 April 1917
Final rankLieutenant
Final unitNew Zealand Field Artillery
FateDied of wounds 13 December 1917
Age at death from cemetery records25
Place of burialBrookwood Military Cemetery (Plot VIII, Row C, Grave No 7), Surrey, England
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: William and Annie Brown, Wellington; Wife: Eunice Brown, 78 Oriental Bay, Wellington
Other details

War service: Western Front

Reported to NZ Field Artillery Depot, Chadderton, England, 29 July 1917.

Proceeded overseas to France, 1 August 1917; posted to 6th Battery, 20 August 1917.

Wounded in action (date not recorded) (shell wound head); transferred to England, and admitted to 2nd London General Hospital, 9 November 1917; listed as 'dangerously ill,. 5 December 1917; 'critical', 13 December 1917.

Died of wounds, 13 December 1917.

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNominal Roll Vol. 3: Roll 60, p. 9
Archives New Zealand (Wellington), Agency AABK, Series 18805