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Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Air Force
Division:
General List and 19th Sqdn. Royal Air Force.
Enlistment:
Motherwell, Ontario
Death:
May 7, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. B. 20.
Additional information
Son of William and Nettie Elizabeth Brown, of Motherwell, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant William Gordon Brown
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Coupure de presse
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Coupure de presse
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Photo de William Brown
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Pierre Tombale
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Mémorial
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto in 1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. Among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen beside the Tower is that of William Gordon Brown. After the Second World War, the names of 557 more men and women were carved in the Memorial Arch underneath the Tower. Photo: K. Parks. -
coupure de presse
Source: The Globe, Toronto, Saturday May 18, 1918 -
Mémorial
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Plaque
Inscription in Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower. The carillon was installed in 1927. Originally there were 23 bells. Alumni and friends donated funds for bells in memory of those who fell in the Great War. Dedications are carved high on the walls of the Memorial Room. Bell XXI is dedicated: " 'Extol, ye bell, the virtue of our valorous men.' Alumni Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering". Photo courtesy of Alumni Relations.
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Gordon Brown
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Gordon Brown
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Gordon Brown
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Gordon Brown
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Gordon Brown
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Gordon Brown
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Gordon Brown
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Gordon Brown
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Gordon Brown
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 584 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Pas de Calais, France
Aubigny Communal Cemetery is south of the village of Aubigny-en-Artois and the Cemetery Extension is behind it. The village of Aubigny-en-Artois is approximately 15 kilometres north-west of Arras on the road to St. Pol. After turning into the village from the N.39 on the D.75, the Cemetery lies south on a road leading from the centre of the village.
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