Victoria Cross file, Corporal Walter Ernest Brown, 20th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, 1918.
Associated with World War One, Western Front (1914-1918).
Brown is believed to have died serving with 2/15th Field Regiment, 2nd Australian Imperial Force, in Malaya in 1942, aged 57.
From a collection of 596 files relating to Victoria Cross recipients between 1855 and 1967, compiled by the Rev Canon William Murrell Lummis MC, Rural Dean of Hingham, Norfolk, retired Captain, Suffolk Regiment. The majority of files contain biographical information and photographs of the recipients together with details of citations and war graves. Where known the present ownership of individual medals is also given.