Kranji War Cemetery, Collective Grave, Plot 6, Row C, Grave 12-14, Age 22.
Cause of Death:
Killed in Action
Place of Death:
Lim Chu Kang Road
Date of Death:
9.02.1942
General Description
Reg enlisted 15 January 1941, joined ‘D’ Coy No. 13 Platoon. He sent to South Australia and Northern Territory before sailing back on ‘Aquitania’ to Fremantle, anchoring for one night prior to sailing to Singapore on 16 January 1942.
When withdrawing from the coast, this party came under Japanese small arms fire. Reg Brown along with several others were never sighted again. Reg Brown was closer to 18 years of age when he died.
Reginald James Brown enlisted recording his birth date as 22 October 1920 at Magill, South Australia. He in fact was born 24 October 1924 at Kalgoorlie. His parents Albert James Brown and Dorothy Martha O’Connell married about 1924 East Coolgardie.
Reg had two younger brothers Frank and ‘Billie’ and when his father died in 1935, the Brown family was residing in Mt. Hawthorn. Reg’s mother died in 1981.
