Captain Joseph Arthur Brashaw
- Rank
- Captain
- Service number
- Officer
- Unit
- 16 Battalion
- Cause of death
- Killed in Action
- Place of death
- Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Turkey
- Date of death
- 7 August 1915
- Age
- 24
- Plaque number
- M15
- Co-located plaques
- M15A - PTE Trevor James
- Dedicated by
- Family on 13 August 2016
- More information
Biography presented during plaque dedication:
Captain Joseph Arthur Brashaw was born at Bellambi, NSW in January 1891 to Harry and Selinah Brashaw.
The family moved to Bunbury where his father Harry was a carrier and served on the Bunbury Council, later becoming the Mayor of the town.
In 1920, Selinah settled at Rokeby Road, Subiaco, brought to Perth by ill health.
Here Joseph studied pharmacy at the Perth Technical School and later was apprenticed to a pharmacy in Hay Street.
Meanwhile he joined the Army Cadets then the Citizen Forces and by 1914 was made a Second Lieutenant in the WA Rifles.
In October 1914 he was seconded to the Australian Imperial Force as a Lieutenant in the 16 Battalion and sent to Broadmeadows Camp in Melbourne where he contracted typhoid.
He was unable to join his Battalion when they sailed for Egypt and remained in hospital.
He eventually recovered and embarked on HMAT Itonis at Fremantle in command of 98 Reinforcements for 16 Battalion.
Landing in Egypt, they were promptly sent to Lemnos where they were unable to re-join the 16 Battalion but sent on the morning of the 25 April, as a beach party, to land on the shores of Gallipoli, which they did at 5.45 am.
On 2 May, whilst leading a party of men through bloody angle, Joseph was shot in the right leg by a sniper.
After spending a period in hospital, he pleaded to be allowed to re-join his unit.
Although his foot had not yet healed, the medical staff yielded to his pleas and he was released and able to re-join the Battalion.
During the attack on Hill 971, Joseph raised himself from a shallow pit, from where they had been pinned down, and was immediately shot through the heart by a sniper.
Captain Joseph Arthur Brashaw of 16 Battalion was killed in action on Gallipoli on the 7 of August 1915.
He was 24 years of age and is remembered on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli.