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VC752 Donald Forrester Brown
Name Donald Forrester Brown No. 8/3504 POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 752 Awards VC
Regiment New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Otago Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion
Later
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
Place Of Death Near Eaucourt l'Abbaye, France
Buried/Location Ashes Warlencourt British Cemetery, Warlencourt, 3 miles south west of Bapaume, Somme, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot 3, Row F, Grave 11
Gazetted 14 June 1917
VC Presented 30 August 1917 by the Governor-General of New Zealand, Earl of Liverpool at Oamaru, New Zealand to his father, Robert
Memorials
P Headstone, Warlencourt British Cemetery, Warlencourt, 3 miles south west of Bapaume, Somme, France
Brown Street, Taradale, Napier, New Zealand
Named On Memorial Sundial, Caroline Bay, Timaru, New Zealand
Memorial at Returned Servicemen's Association HQ, Dunedin, New Zealand
Named On Victoria Cross Memorial, Queens Gardens, Dunedin, New Zealand
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
By The Way…
He sold his farm, and went to off to war, never to return again
VC Held By
Not known
BORN 23 February 1890
DIED 1 October 1916 AGE 26
VC Won 15 September 1916 AGE 26
Place VC Won High Wood, France
War/Campaign First World War 1916
