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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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