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Military service
Service number:
633055
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
38th Bn.
Birth:
April 3, 1894
Enlistment:
Cornwall, Ontario
Death:
August 10, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Charles and Martha Brown, of Summerstown Station, Ontario; husband of the late Annie Johnson Brown, of Cornwall, Ontario.
Digitized service file.
Digital gallery of Private William Brown
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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 983 of 1128
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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)
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 376 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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