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Murray: 'C'Sqn. commissioned in 3NSWMR, Lieutenant 30.3.1901 supernumerary.
Burridge1: Queen's South Africa medal and 7 clasps WW1 Trio Captain Rl. Sussex Regt. died 1917.
B5204: Queen's South Africa medal and 5 clasps (Drief. Jbg. DH Witte. & CC) King's South Africa medal and 2 clasps.
URL1: BRAUN Charles Lema Captain Essex Regt. died aged 43 19.6.1917 buried at Plot E Row B. Grave 19 Nasirabad Government Cemetery.
URL2: letter dated Pretoria 17.6.1900 from Sgt. C BRAWN NSWMR says Mr LIGGINS (my old Sergt. Major of 2nd NSW Regt.) received nasty wound in shoulder.
URL3: New South Wales Swimming Association members already at the war in South Africa, or on their way thither - V DAVIS, L LEO, Warrant-Officer's Bond; Sergeant LUNRIE, Colonel WILLIAMS, CO SHARP, G TAYLOR, R REID, Eastern Suburbs; G VON HAMMER, F VON HAMMER, Nautilus; J RYAN, Randwick and Coogee; JJ KELLY, Otter; J MORRIS, C BRAUN, Enterprise; J CALLAGHAN, Lieutenant TL MULLINS, East Sydney; JS THORPE, North Sydney; EA MCNAB, Government Printing Office; Dr. RE ROTH, Dr. Vandeleur KELLY, NSWASA.
URL4: A MYSTERY SOLVED. CHARLES BRAUN'S DISAPPEARANCE. FOUND IN MELBOURNE. The mystery of the disappearance of a young man named Charles Lima BRAUN, who was a passenger from South Africa by the steamer Euryalus, arriving at Port Melbourne on 1.3.1905, has now been solved. BRAUN, who was 30 years of age, had served in the South African war as a lieutenant in the New South Wales Mounted Rifles, but was attacked by enteric fever during the campaign, and subsequently suffered ill-health. One of the results of his illness was a partial loss of memory; and it is stated that he could only remember the events of the last nine mouths, his life prior to that being a blank. He had been in South Africa since the termination of the war, and was returning to his home in New South Wales with his father, Mr. Benjamin BRAUN. The voyage had greatly benefited him, and, with the exception of the loss of memory, he was apparently almost well again. When the vessel berthed at the railway pier Mr. BRAUN invited his son to accompany him to Melbourne, but the latter said he would remain on board. About an hour after his father's departure Mr. BRAUN jnr. left the vessel to take a walk on the pier, and asked the third officer, Mr. GOOD, to tell his father this if he returned first. He walked up the pier towards Port Melbourne, and was not seen until a few days ago. On the same night of his disappearance, William BELL, a stoker of the steamer Tropic, found a suit of clothes, with underlinen and hat, on the Port Melbourne beach, between the town and railway piers. He reported the matter to the police, with the result that the clothes were identified by Mr. Benjamin BRAUN as those of his son. The police made every search for the missing man, and the father remained in Melbourne for some days, hoping to hear news of him. The news, however, did not come through the police. It seemed that young Braun had been known for six or seven years to a Mr. Arthur TARKOVER, residing at Nicholson Street, Fitzroy, who saw the father of the missing man, and promised to keep a look out for his son. Mr. TARKOVER was walking along Bourke Street on Tuesday morning [14.3.1905] in company with a man named Frank MURPHY, when he saw BRAUN looking into the window of Longmore's chemist shop. TARKOVER recognised the latter, though he had grown a beard and moustache since he saw him last. He at once sang out, "Hello, Charlie; how are you?" BRAUN, however, did not seem to know his questioner, and, more over, said his name was not Charlie. TARKOVER, however, was not put off by the rebuff, but sent his companion to the Federal Coffee Palace, where Mr. BRAUN sen., was staying. Mr. BRAUN, however, was out. TARKOVER managed to induce the missing man also to go to the coffee palace, but Mr. BRAUN was still out. He pressed the young man to go to his home in Nicholson Street, but was met with a refusal. TARKOVER then made an appointment with BRAUN to meet him again, but this he did not keep. He was next seen by Mr. TARKOVER sen., on Thursday, who told his son, and they traced young BRAUN to a restaurant in King-street. It was not until 5 pm yesterday that TARKOVER jun., found BRAUN at the restaurant. After some trouble with the young man he eventually got the assistance of the Bourke Street west police, who threatened to lock him up. This induced BRAUN to go to his friend's home. He now seems perfectly satisfied with his friends. BRAUN jun., suffers from loss of memory, and can only remember events of three days' duration. His memory, he says, is a complete blank so far as the Euryalus or what transpired immediately after his leaving it is concerned. He did not even recognise his own mother's photograph when it was shown to him. He was minus his coat and watch when seen yesterday, and has evidently lived on the proceeds of pawning his personal property. He states that he was afraid that his people would lock him up in some asylum, which no doubt accounts for his strange behavior.
URL5: A MYSTERIOUS CASE. THE FATE OF A RETURNED SOLDIER. Melbourne, 2.3.1905. On Wednesday night a suit of clothes, with underlinen and a hat, were found on the Port Melbourne beach. The clothes and the papers in the pockets were identified by Benjamin BRAUN, a saloon passenger on the Currie liner Euryalus, which arrived from Durban on Wednesday evening, as those of his son Charles Lima BRAUN, who was travelling with him. When the vessel berthed at the railway pier BRAUN invited his son to accompany him to Melbourne, but the young man said he would remain on board. About an hour after his father's departure BRAUN left the vessel to take a walk on the pier. He walked up the pier towards Port Melbourne, and has not been seen since. The missing man was 30 years of age, and had been in ill-health for some time, but had improved considerably on the voyage out. He served in the South African war as a lieutenant in the New South Wales Mounted Rifles, but was attacked by enteric fever during the campaign. One of the results of his illness was a partial loss of memory, and it is stated that he could only remember the events of the last nine months, his life prior to that being a blank. He had been in South Africa since the termination of the war, and was returning to his home in New South Wales with his father. A peculiar feature of the affair is that the boots of the missing man, who is said to have been a good swimmer, were not found with the rest of his garments, although the socks were there. When he left the ship he had about £3 in his purse, but the purse and its contents were not in the garments picked up on the beach.
URL6: MAN'S CLOTHES FOUND. The owner missing. A fireman belonging to the steamship Tropic found a bundle of clothing on the beach on Monday evening and reported the matter to the police. Sergeant NUGENT detailed Senior-Constables ASKER and MCCARTHY and Constable HOWARD to make inquiries, when it was found that the clothes belonged to a passenger to board the Euralyus named Charles Lima BRAUN. Mr. BRAUN, senr., was also a passenger by the boat and stated that he had just been to bring his son from South Africa. The missing man went to that country with the New South Wales Light Horse as a lieutenant during the Boer war, and had since been ill with enteric lever. The fever had left him with a defective memory. On Wednesday evening Mr. BRAUN, jnr, told the 3rd officer of the ship that he was going for a walk, and did not return. He had on an overcoat when last seen, and this was not with the clothing that was found. There was also £3 in money missing, and a pair of gold sleeve links, dumb-bell pattern. The police are making every effort to try and find the missing man.
URL7: MYSTERY SOLVED, PECULIAR HAPPENING TO A SEA MAN. The uncertainty surrounding the disappearance from the Euryalus on March 1 of Charles Liuna BRAUN was set at rest by the discovery of the missing man in Melbourne last week. BRAUN, who has served in HMS Karakatta and had taken part in the South African war, subsequently receiving a commission with the South African police, had had his memory impaired by enteric fever. His father went over to Africa and returned with his son in the Euryalus, from which BRAUN disappeared in his father's absence. He was discovered in Bourke Street by a friend, Mr. Arthur TARTAKOVER, who found that BRAUN jnr. had not only forgotten his South African experiences, but did not even know his own name. TARTAKOVER took him home, and a telegram was sent to Mr BRAUN, sen., announcing the safety of his son.
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