Tpr H. B. Brown, Auckland Mntd Rifles

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from the CWGC

Name: BROWN, HEWETT BARNARD

Initials: H B

Nationality: New Zealand

Rank: Trooper

Regiment: Auckland Mounted Rifles, N.Z.E.F.

Age: 27

Date of Death: 19/05/1915

Service No: 13/671

Additional information: Son of William Frederick Barnard Brown and Ellen Masie Brown, of 6, Roslyn Avenue, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: I. C. 6.

Cemetery: WALKER'S RIDGE CEMETERY, ANZAC

Location Information: Walker's Ridge Cemetery is 250 metres along a level track from the road, north of Lone Pine on the road to Hill 60, almost due east of Anzac Cove.

Historical Information: The eight month campaign in Gallipoli was fought by Commonwealth and French forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front in France and Belgium, and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25-26 April 1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, an area soon known as Anzac. On 25 April, Walker's Ridge was the post of command of Brigadier-General Walker, then commanding the New Zealand Infantry Brigade. It was held by a mixed force until 27 April, when the New Zealanders took it over. A Turkish attempt to take the ridge on 30 June was repulsed by the 8th and 9th Australian Light Horse. The cemetery was made during the occupation and consists of two plots separated by 18 metres of ground, through which a trench ran. There are now 92 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 16 of the burials are unidentified and special memorials commemorate 26 soldiers known or believed to be buried in the cemetery.

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Surname BROWN

Given Name Hewitt Barnard

Category Nominal Roll Vol. 1

Regimental Number 13/671

Rank Trooper

Body or Draft Second

Unit or Regiment Auckland Mounted Rifles

Marital Status S

Last NZ Address Whakatane

Next of Kin Title J B

Next of Kin Surname BROWN

Next of Kin Relationship Father

Next of Kin Address Whakatane

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