Early Life
Brown was born on 23 February 1890 in Dunedin, New Zealand. After attending schools in Dunedin and Oamaru, he took up farming. When World War One broke out, he carried on farming for a year but then sold his farm and volunteered for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) on 19 October 1915.
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