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Cecil Raymond BRANGWIN

Regimental number3546
Place of birthLondon, England
SchoolStroud Green Grammar School, London, England
Age on arrival in Australia18
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationLabourer
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation19
Next of kinMother, Mrs F Brangwin, 43 Donavon Avenue, London, England
Previous military serviceNil
Enlistment date27 April 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name10th Battalion, 11th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/27/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A24 Benalla on 27 October 1915
Rank from Nominal RollGunner
Unit from Nominal Roll10th Field Artillery Brigade
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularName given in RoH circular as Cecil Raymond Abbey BRANGWIN. Went to Australia to learn farming from Mr Wheaton Rydon of Red Hill, SA and subsequently to take up a Government grant of land. Died at 45th Casualty Clearing Station.
FateDied of wounds 29 April 1917
Place of death or woundingBapaume, Somme Sector, France
Age at death22
Age at death from cemetery records22
Place of burialAchiet-Le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension (Plot I, Row D, Grave No. 24), France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
16
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Ernest and Florence BRANGWIN, 43 Donovan Avenue, Muswell Hill, London, England

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