Horace Roy Brown (SN 190) enlisted in Liverpool, New South Wales at the age of 22 on the February 23rd 1915. Born in Ballarat, he was single, and employed as a clerk when he was posted to the 19th Battalion. He embarked from Sydney aboard the Ceramic on June 25th and served in Gallipoli from August until the evacuation, then with the 5th Machine Gun Company and later the 2nd Machine Gun Battalion in France. He was reported 'wounded in action France and remaining on duty' in August 1916. Wounded again in April 1918, he remained in France for the rest of the war, assigned to the Australian Employment Company. He returned to Australia on the Lancashire in February 1919.

His brother Angus was killed in action in France and is honoured with a tree in the Avenue.