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Leonard John Brown 1906 - 1943

Leonard John Brown was born on June 3, 1906 at South Melbourne 31 Palmer Street, in South Melbourne, Australia County to Cornelius C. Brown and Emily Esther Murray, and had siblings Emily Ella Brown, Cornelius Colin Brown, Alan Brown, and William Brown. He married Winifred Olive Murphy, and had a child Peter Leonard Brown. Leonard Brown died at age 36 years old on January 12, 1943 at Papua New Guinea in Papua New Guinea, and was buried at Port Moresby Memorial Panel 3. in Australia.
Leonard John Brown
June 3, 1906
South Melbourne 31 Palmer Street, in South Melbourne, Australia County 3207
January 12, 1943
Papua New Guinea in , Papua New Guinea
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  • 06/3
    1906

    Birthday

    June 3, 1906
    Birthdate
    South Melbourne 31 Palmer Street, in South Melbourne, Australia County 3207
    Birthplace
  • Religious Beliefs

    Catholic
  • Military Service

    Service number: vx70131 Rank: Lance Corporal Regiment: Australian Infantry Unit/ship/squadron: A.i.f. 2/12 Bn.
  • Professional Career

    Grain & Fuel Merchant
  • 01/12
    1943

    Death

    January 12, 1943
    Death date
    Killed in Action
    Cause of death
    Papua New Guinea in Papua New Guinea
    Death location
  • Gravesite & Burial

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    Port Moresby Memorial Panel 3. in Australia
    Burial location
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In 1906, in the year that Leonard John Brown was born, English biochemist Frederick Hopkins concluded that vitamins are essential to the human body and that a lack of vitamins caused scurvy and rickets. Scurvy and rickets were both huge problems in sailors that were at sea for extended time and the addition of vitamin C, vitamin D, and calcium in their diets helped eradicate the problem.
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In 1914, at the age of merely 8 years old, Leonard was alive when President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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