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Military service
Service number:
730800
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
4th Bn.
Birth:
May 25, 1898
Enlistment:
Preston, Ontario
Death:
July 31, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. D. 5.
Additional information
Son of David and Sarah Brown, of Preston, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Robert Canning Brown
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Monument
Preston Ontario Cenotaph. Dedicated November 8, 1926. The names of Preston soldiers killed in the Second World War were added in 1949. Inscribed: IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF PRESTON WHO DIED IN THE GREAT WAR AND IN GRATEFUL TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO SHARED ITS DANGERS. -
Photo de Robert Brown
In memory of the men and women from the Waterloo area who went to war and did not come home. From the booklet, Peace Souvenir – Activities of Waterloo County in the Great War 1914 – 1918. From the Toronto Public Library collection. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Mémorial
In memory of the men and women from the Waterloo area who went to war and did not come home. From the booklet, Peace Souvenir – Activities of Waterloo County in the Great War 1914 – 1918. From the Toronto Public Library collection. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo de ROBERT CANNING BROWN
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War One Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Canning Brown
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Canning Brown
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Canning Brown
Digital gallery of
Private Robert Canning Brown
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 208 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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