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Détails victime

Informations personnelles

  • BROWN
  • RA
  • RICHARD AUSTIN
  • Toronto
  • Ontario, Canada
  • Son of T. Albert and Jennie Brown, of 181, Crescent Rd., Toronto.
  • St Andrew's College ( member of the cadet corps from 1908-1914); University College Toronto (1914-1915)
  • Student
  • Known as Bud

Données militaires

  • 6 July 1915, Niagara Falls
  • Captain
  • M C
  • 15th Bn. Central Ontario Regiment (48th Highlanders)
  • Appointed to the 58th Battalion, summer 1915; joined the 15th Bn., November 1915; served in the Ploegsteert-St.Eloi-Ypres area; wounded at Zillebeke June 1916; returned home on leave; rejoined his bn. in October 1916; awarded the Military Cross at the battle of Vimy Ridge, 9 April 1917 for his courage and ability in leading his company during the advance and for his work in silencing an enemy machine gun (London Gazette, 26 July 1917); Lens; Hill 70.

Décès

  • 9 November, during shelling of a pill-box
  • Shell wound in the head; died of gunshot wounds and concussion in n°3 Canadian CCS
  • 14 November 1917
  • 21
  • XXII - DD - 7

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