Geoffrey Brown (Australian politician)
Australian politician
Geoffrey William Brown (25 April 1894 – 14 October 1955) was an Australian politician.
The son of Dr. Henry William Brown and Clara Treacher Brown (née Williams), he was born in Colac, Victoria, on 25 April 1894. He attended Geelong Grammar School from 1908 to 1911 and then Christ College at Cambridge University in England where he graduated with a degree in natural sciences.
He served in the British Expeditionary Force for five years from 1914 to 1919, being severely wounded and appointed M.B.E. and was then with the British Colonial Service for four years in England and Nigeria.
Brown is believed to have served with the Royal West Kent Regiment in France and Belgium, being wounded at the Battle of Loos
Appointed MBE on 7 June 1918, he was then posted as a lieutenant in the role of administrative officer and assistant adjutant at a School of Instruction. He is believed to have ended the war as a captain.
On 7 April 1921, he married Caroline Mabel Brawn, youngest daughter of G Brawn JP at Lichfield Cathedral. Their daughter, Joan T was born at Atcham in Shropshire in 1922.
In 1924, he returned to Australia to become an orchardist in Merricks and living at "Moelfre".
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