Harold Richard Brown (SN 5930), born at Egerton, was a 25 year old art teacher living in Drummond Street Ballarat when he enlisted on August 2nd 1915. Posted to the 3rd Division Signals Company, he sailed from Australia in early 1916, first to Egypt and then on to England, arriving there in August. He crossed to France in April 1917 but returned to England on leave in August. On August 4th 1917, at Haughton Regis in Bedford, he married 21 year old Ethel Gibbons. He returned to France, where he was hospitalised with mumps in May 1918, but otherwise he avoided battle wounds. At the war’s end, along with his wife and child, he returned to Australia aboard the Indarra, disembarking at Melbourne in September 1919. He was discharged a few weeks later on October 29th 1919.