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Military service
Service number:
492
Age:
22
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Division:
6th Field Company
Birth:
August 3, 1893
Collingwood, Ontario
Enlistment:
February 8, 1915
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
June 23, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. G. 9.
Additional information
Son of John and Mary Brown, of Acton, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Corporal Warren George Brown
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Roll of Service
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Photo of Warren Brown
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1918. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto in 1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. Their names are carved on the Memorial Screen. Photo: K. Parks. -
Memorial
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Inscription
Inscription in Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower. The carillon was installed in 1927. Originally there were 23 bells. Alumni and friends donated funds for bells in memory of those who fell in the Great War. Dedications are carved high on the walls of the Memorial Room. Bell XXI is dedicated: " 'Extol, ye bell, the virtue of our valorous men.' Alumni Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering". Photo courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Corporal Warren George Brown
Digital gallery of
Corporal Warren George Brown
Digital gallery of
Corporal Warren George Brown
Digital gallery of
Corporal Warren George Brown
Digital gallery of
Corporal Warren George Brown
Digital gallery of
Corporal Warren George Brown
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 60 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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