Help to identify Australian Army Uniform - completed

[mum mum]

Hi,
Just checked out the link about the slouch hat. See below.

The slouch hat with the left side turned up is newer than the term digger but it is also one of the legacies of that pre-Commonwealth period, just, as it dates from the Boer War.   The Boer cavalry wore a hat with the right side pinned up, so the Breaker and his mates pinned up the left side of their hats to identify themselves as Australians

I had a look at the WW1 board this morning,  I dont know if it was the right one but it looked to be all British.

I think we are now giving Wallytat a bit more to go on though.


mum mum

[majm]

thanks Mclachlan but my guy came back to Australia.   I was hoping that if we could narrow down the search of military records to which unit he served in then we might be about to find him. seeing as we can not locate him under BDM or the NAA.

Hi Wallytat,  have you considered contacting the Australian War Memorial and asking them for help or suggestions in identifying the uniform of this chap in the photo? Their website is http://www.awm.gov.au/
I'm quite sure that his service records are there on the NAA, its just a matter of having sufficient clues to know which David Brown .... there's 42 on the embarkation list at the AWM, including a
Private David BROWNLING, in the LIGHT HORSE regiment   Service no. 301.  One of the first to enlist, but he embarked from Brisbane Qld, and that's a very long way from Liverpool NSW
His records are digitised and available at the NAA's online site.  He returned to Australia after the war.

JM

[majm]

Just to add,

If your David Brown turns out to be David Browning, then there's a great deal of family information on those NAA records, including an extract of the marriage certificate in England in 1919,- that gives his wife's nee name, and the names and occupation of both their fathers.   And of course on his 1914 enlistment there's his mother who was nominated as his n o k.  It shows he was born at Blayney in central western NSW.  Perhaps this would be the
1891 birth registration at Carcoar (near Blayney) to Richard and Elizabeth of a son named David Browning (9967/1891 at NSW BDM reference)....

His enlistment definitely shows 2nd Light Horse Regiment, and you have mentioned the possibility that he used an alias when enlisting (Brown v Browning).  The naa papers also give his age (23 years 4 months in Aug 1914) and his height 5 ft 8 1/2 inches.  He weighed 164 lbs, had fair complexion, brown eyes and fair hair.  And he was C of E.  I cannot tell from the photo if any of that matches up with your chap.

I stress, there's NO way of knowing if your David Brown was connected to this David Browning, just on what I have posted,, SORRY but I don't know of any more ways I can try to help  on this thread.
Cheers,  JM

[Wallytat]

I have tried to register for the Lighthorse asociation forum but it popped up a message to say i will get an email soon and that was two weeks ago.

I did send an email to the National archive and got a very short reply referring us back to their search page.

Thanks for the link to Sparksfilms Just Moi, i have sent them an email to see if they can help with any information on the uniform. I'll let you all know.

Yes the family can confirm that their soldier was a 'rather short man' and he did want to be a jockey.

Off now to spend the weekend srolling through war records looking for a short man, wounded in the buttock, not KIA (sadly this discounts too many), won a military medal.

Wallytat

[Wallytat]

Thank you everyone for your replies.

We have had the details of this soldier confirmed by one of his relatives an a different geneology website.

the soldier was lighthorse but as this uniform is does not match lighthorse webbing we can only assme that he may have changed unit after initial recruitment.

Wallytat