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Sergeant Donald Forrester Brown (VC)

Sergeant Donald Forrester Brown (1880–1916) was the first member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force to win a Victoria Cross on the Western Front.

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  • Poppy field, village of Pas, Somme 1918
    Battle of the Somme

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western front
battle of the somme
victoria cross
donald brown
Credit

J.R. Byrne, New Zealand Artillery in the field, 1914–1918, Whitcombe & Tombs, 1922

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