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Military service
Service number:
163142
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
75th Bn.
Birth:
November 21, 1888
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
November 18, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Reuben Wesley Brown, and Louisa Brown, of 23, Frances St., Hamilton; husband of Rosella Ann Brown, of 556, Theodore St., Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
Digitized service file.
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Newspaper Clipping
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Oliver Perry Brown enlisted in Toronto in the 84th Battalion C.E.F. on September 11th, 1915. This article and photo appeared in the Toronto Evening Telegram on December 7th, 1916. In honoured memory. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
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From the Toronto Telegram December 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
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Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
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Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
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Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private Oliver Perry Brown
Digital gallery of
Private Oliver Perry Brown
Digital gallery of
Private Oliver Perry Brown
Digital gallery of
Private Oliver Perry Brown
Digital gallery of
Private Oliver Perry Brown
Digital gallery of
Private Oliver Perry Brown
Digital gallery of
Private Oliver Perry Brown
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 60 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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