IN THE GREAT CAUSE

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 65, 13 September 1918, Page 7

IN THE GREAT CAUSE

DEATH OF CAPTAIN F. V. BROWN

Cabled" advice has been received that Captain F. V. Brown,' of the Headquarters Staff, New Zealand Artillery-. Division, was killed in action on the Ist of September. Captain Brown was the son of the -late Brigadier-General C. H. J. Brown, D.5.0., who was killed in action on Bth ■ June last year in the Battle of Messines, in which the late Captain Brown an dhis brother, Gunner; C. T. Brown, were in action also.. [ Captain Brownnvas born in Newcastle, New South Wales, twenty-four years ago, and came to Denniston with his parents. He was educated at the Denniston School, and subsequently at Nelson College, and, then for a short timo entered the service of the Public Works Department in Christchurch, but he de- x cided to take up a military career. He Eassed the entrance examination with onours, and proceeded to Duntroon Military College. His career there was particularly brilliant, and he left Duntroon before completing the course, so anxious was he to go on active service. On arrival back in New Zealand he joined up with the- Instructional Staff of the New Zealand Field. Artillery, Trentham. Although going in with the, 7th Reinforcements, it was some time be-' fore the military authorities could spare him, and he eventually left with the 18th Reinforcements. Unfortunately, while awaiting orders to proceed to France he was' taken ill with appendi- . citis,. but being operated on success? fully he urged to be let go at once, and . six weeks, afterwards was en route to the theatre of war. On arrival in France he joined up with the Ist Battery, from which .he was transferred to General John stone's staff. He took part in the battles consequent upon the recent German offensive. General Brown's three sons all joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces Gunner C. T. Brown, who returned to New Zealand this year, having been cljissed as unfit for further active service. The youngest son, Gunner B. B. Brown, who had his twentieth: ! birthday on the troopship, is now almost arriving in England. The late Captain Brown's mother and his two sisters reside in Wellington.