Service: 27 Brigade Australian Army Services Corps
Service number: VX22047
Locality on Enlistment: Apollo Bay
Duration of Service: 18 Jun 1940 – 20 Dec 1945
Prisoner of War: Yes
Honours: None for display
Date and Place of Birth: 3 Oct 1918 Apollo Bay
Parents: George Harold BROWN and Mary Ellen Musk CRAIG
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Occupation: Grocer
Date and Place of Death: 25 May 2001 Colac
Place of Burial: Colac Cemetery
NOTES: John Brown arrived in Singapore in August 1941 as part of the 27th Brigade AASC. On 26 March 1942 he was reported missing in Malaya and in May 1943 he is recorded as a Prisoner of War in Thailand. He was held in the Changi Prisoner of War Camp & was among the POWs forced to work on the Burma Railway. Conditions were harsh and one in three did not survive. John’s army record reported that he was found alive in Siam and was recovered from the Japanese on 12 September 1945.