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Military service
Service number:
862073
Age:
27
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
February 14, 1891
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
August 29, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. A. 8.
Additional information
Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Brown, of 101, Holborn St., Aberdeen, Scotland; husband of Margaret McMahan Brown, of Scarboro Golf and Country Club, Scarboro, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private William Smith Brown
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Circumstances of Death
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Broad to Broyak. Mircoform Sequence 14; Volume Number 31829_B016723; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 158 Page 1045 of 1128 -
Newspaper clipping
Orillia Times, 12 Sep 1918 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 376 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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