Next of kin address Kathleen May Mahon Browne Mosman England Mother Mary Brown Father John Henry Browne More info Charles served in the Royal Navy from 10-9-1910 to 9-9-1932. He served on many ships during that time as a radio officer. During WW1 he was on a few ships that were sunk and being the radio officer was always one of the last to leave the ship. During the 1920's he remained with the Navy and married. He took his wife and son to Malta where he served for the Royal Navy for several years. We believe at this time he was part of the team to transmit a message the furthest distance ever at that time, from London to the Falkland Islands. ( A radio transmitter was installed in South Georgia April 1 1925, so this could be around the time the first transmission was made, possibly via Malta/Italy ) If anyone else knows more about this please update. I need to do more research to confirm the history of this, it is verbal. Record is held on the UK, Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services, 1853-1928. He emigrated with his wife and son to Australia in 1932. His radio skills took him to Canberra where he was instrumental with the first radio station to broadcast. In 1939 he was recalled to serve for the Australian Navy as a radio officer and departed on the Penguin to Moreton Bay 7-9-1939, then on the Pembroke 1941-1942 On the day his ship departed out of Sydney Harbour, his young son, paddled out in a canoe to the ship, the men threw a rope over and he climbed on board where they showed him around the ship. That was the last memory, his son Anthony, ever had of his father. Charles records state that he was to be returned to Australia at first convenient opportunity. However, he was transferred to London in 1942 to work in the radio bunkers and became ill and died in 1946, shortly after the war ended, and thus never seeing his wife or son again.