"GONE WEST!"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 306, 14 September 1918, Page 7

"GONE WEST!"

. CAPTAIN F./V. BROWN. ; • Cabled been received that Captain F..V. Brown, 'of the Head- . quarters Staff, New Zealand Artillery Division, was killed in action on September 1. Captain Brown was the son of the late Bngadier.-General C: H.. J. ; Brow.n, D.5.0., who was killed in action on June S .last, year in the Battle of Messines, in which the "laje Captain , Brown ajid'his brother, Gunner C. T. Browrf, were in action also. Captain Brown.was born in Newcastle, New South Wales,;twenty-tour years.ago, and came k>; Denniston with his parents , He was educated at the Denniston School, and subsequently at Nelson College, and then' for a' short time entered the service, of the Public Works Department in ' Christch'urch, but he ; decided' to take up a military career. He passed the entrance examination with honours, 'and proceeded to Duntroon Military College. :His career there was particularly brilliant, and he left Duntroon Before completing the course,""So'anxious was he toi ; go onactive service. On arrival back in New Zealand he , joined Tip with the Instructional Staff of the New Zealand Field Artillery, Trenthaml' Although going in with the Seventh Reinforcements, it was some time , before the military authorities could spare him, and he,eventually left with the Eighteenth- Rein.TJnJfbrt'unately, while awaiting orders to proceed to France, lie was. taken ill with appendicitis, but, being operated on successfully, he urged to be let -go at once, , and six weoks aftenvarde was en route to the theatre of war On'arrival in.France he ioiued up with the Ist Battery, from which he Was transferred to General .Johnstone's staff: Hβ took 'part in the battles consequent upon the recent German offensive. General Brown's three sous sll joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces. Gunner C. T. Brown, who returned to New Zealand this year, having been classed as unfit for further active service. -, Tho youngest son, Gunner B. B. Brown, who had his; twentieth birthday on the troopship, is now almost arriving in- England. .The late Captain • Brown's mother and bis two sisters reside, in Wellington.