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Private Harry W Brown

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Military service

Service number: 226353
Age: 19
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division: 10th Battalion
Birth: May 11, 1898 Gananoque, Ontario
Enlistment: August 18, 1916 Ontario
Death: August 17, 1917 Béthune, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: II. J. 29.
Additional information

Son of Mrs. Helen McAuliffe, East Emily, Ontario. He stated he was employed as a farmer and was single. The town of Gananoque and the Gananoque Legion will be displaying Brown's original Victoria Cross at the Legion in August 2007 to mark the 90th anniversary of the action which earned Brown the award. Also planned is a cairn to Pte. Brown.

Commemorated on the Private Harry Brown VC Memorial in Gananoque, the Private Harry Brown VC Memorial in Omemee and the Omemee District War Memorial.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 208 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Noeux-les-Mines is a town 6 kilometres south of Bethune on the main road to Arras. The Communal Cemetery is on the northern side of the town, on the south-east side of the road to Labourse.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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