Help to identify Australian Army Uniform - completed

[Wallytat]

Hi all

Can anyone help to identify from the attached photo under which Regiment  David Brown served in WWI?

Wallytat

[tropicalj]

Have you  researched David Brown using  the National Archives of Australia
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/recordsearch/index.aspx

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his records should tell you what regiment he did serve in. 

Jenn

[Flakdodger]

Hello Wallytat,
Do you have a home address or place of origin for him?
Another worthwhile site is that of the AIF Project
www.aif.adfa.edu.au
This assumes that your David Brown served overseas from Australia.
You should bring up a list of 7 David Browns and another 17 that have a middle name.
There is nothing from the photo to indicate his unit, except that he is an infantryman.
Let us know how you get on!
Dave

[majm]

Bit More,

I have spoken on the phone to rellie of mine, and she's certain that the Lemaire Studios were located in Sydney.  Various photographic studios had their own"mobile stations" at many of the military enlistment camps. So I have checked the Sydney Sands directories and find in 1915 Carl Lemaire  photo studios 606 George St Sydney.   My rellie's forebears were early photographers in NSW and Qld, but alas she does not have negatives from times, and they were not associated with Lemaire Studios.   But my rellie says "most of the negatives were given to the State Library" decades ago.  Negatives had a number on them, indexed back to the contact details of the subject in each photo. 

Wallytat, if you have the print, is there a number on the other side of this print? Also, perhaps a date (month and or year) the photo was taken, as that would be a good indication of the enlistment timeframe for your Chap.

Hope these thoughts help.

Cheers,  JM

[macintosh]

This site may help.  www.rar.org.au
 The collar badge looks just like the rising sun badge worn on the slouch hat of the Royal Australian Regiment. He is almost certainly and infantry man.

James

[majm]

Bit More,

the Collar Badge is also very similar to that worn by the chap in the studio photo linked below. The photo was taken in April 1917, in Sydney and the subject was a Sapper in the Field Engineers.

http://cas.awm.gov.au/photograph/P01821.002

I agree that the rifle and bayonet held by chap in the photo  likely indicates him to be an infantry man.

Cheers,

JM

[Wallytat]

Thanks for the Links guys.

i have been trying all of these but when all i have to go on in David Brown who had his photo taken at a military camp in Liverpool it is hard.

i only have a copy of the photo but will see if the family can locate any numbers on the back. i sure they would have looked for these perviously as they took the photo to our local Army Museum.

i have two different birth years given by the Death cert and marriage cert but have not been able to find a birth anywhere in Vic or NSW. (there is a whole other posting here on roots chat about this).

The family story goes that this soldier was a member of the Lighthorse but his webbing does not match this story.

well off to google some photographers and more military web sites

Wallytat

[mclachlan]

Hi Wallytat,

Not sure if this is your David Brown, but found these details on Australian War Memorial website:

David Brown

Rank: Lieutenant [Lt]

Unit: 41st Battalion (Infantry)

Service: Army

Conflict: 1914-1918

Date of death: 17 August 1918

Cause of death: Died of wounds

Cemetery or memorial details: FRANCE 148 St Sever Cemetery Rouen

War Grave Register notes: BROWN, Lt. David, M. C. 41st Bn. Australian Inf. Died of wounds 17th Aug., 1918. Son of William Edward and Mary Ann Brown, of 13, Kentville Avenue, Annandale, New South Wales. Native of Charters Towers, Queensland. Officers, B. 6. 27.

Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army

[cando]

It may be a good idea to read the previous thread on David to avoid duplicate searching
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,398476.0.html

and particularly this link...the family believe he enlisted using an alias..
http://www.rootschat.com/links/06zz/

Cando