| Unit |
2nd Battalion |
Rank |
Lieutenant Colonel |
Service no. |
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| Date of Death |
4 May 1915 |
Place of Death |
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Age
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48 |
| Cemetery |
Beach |
Details |
I. A. 40 |
| Epitaph |
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| Next of Kin |
(Wife) BRAUND L
R |
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| Parents |
Frederick and
Ellen Doidge Braund |
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| Date of Birth |
13 July 1866 |
Place of birth |
England, Bideford, Devon |
Source |
1 |
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General |
"How great was the strain placed upon
these young troops was only realised when the Colonel of the Deal
Battalion, visiting a section of his trenches, was shot by his men, who,
in a fit of spy mania, killed him, wounded three others, and slightly
bayonetted Colonel McNicoll."
"At 1 a.m. on May 4 the gallant
Colonel Braund on the 2nd Bn, returning to the rest camp in the
scrub on Braund's Hill, met his death in a similar tragedy.
He was slightly deaf, and appears to have disregarded the challenge of
one of his own sentries. The sentry shot him."
The Official History of Australia in
the war of 1914-1918, BEAN, C E W, The Story of Anzac, volume 1, 11th
edition, page 599 (source 1)
"Braund was a member of the
parliament of New South Wales for the Armidale seat. He had lately
been appointed to the command of his regiment. He was possessed of
strong ideas, a total abstainer, and a man of vigorous action.
The Official History of Australia in
the war of 1914-1918, BEAN, C E W, The Story of Anzac, volume 1, 11th
edition, page 52 (source 1) |
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Other Sources |
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Photo |
The Sydney
Morning Herald Newspaper,
13 May 1915 (source 24) |
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Photo |
Australian War
Memorial (www.awm.gov.au), P03796.003, (source 7) |
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Photo |
Anzac Memorial -
1916, page 47 (source 26) |
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Photo |
The Argus Newspaper,
17 May 1915, page 7 (source 42) |
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Photo |
The
Australasian Newspaper, 22 May 1915, page vii (source 31) |
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Photo |
The Daily
Telegraph Newspaper,
13 May 1915, page 9 (source 70) |
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Newspaper article |
The Weekly Courier Newspaper,
20 May 1915, page 36 (source 30) |
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Newspaper article |
The Daily Telegraph Newspaper,
13 May 1915, page 8 (source 70) |
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Newspaper article |
The Daily Telegraph Newspaper,
13 May 1915, page 8 (source 70) |
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Newspaper article |
The Daily Telegraph Newspaper,
13 May 1915, page 8 (source 70) |
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Newspaper article |
The Daily Telegraph Newspaper,
18 May 1915, page 9 (source 70) |
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Family details |
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Headstone |
Australian War Memorial (www.awm.gov.au),
P02148.008, (source 7) |
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Headstone |
Australian War Memorial (www.awm.gov.au),
P01815.015, (source 7) |
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Headstone |
The Sydney Mail
Newspaper, 23 February 1916, page 7 (source 15) |
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Headstone |
http://www.diggerhistory2.info (source 79) |
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