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Military service
Service number:
65124
Age:
30
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
24th Bn.
Birth:
July 27, 1885
Westhoughton, Lancs, England
Enlistment:
Montreal, Québec
Death:
October 12, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
X. D. 9.
Additional information
Son of Ann Brown, of Farnworth, Lancs.
Digital gallery of Private William Brown
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Memorial
Memorial to Private William Brown in Westhoughton Cemetery, Lancashire, England. -
Inscription
Inscription on the memorial to Private William Brown in Westhoughton Cemetery, Lancashire, England. -
Memorial
Part of the memorial to Private William Brown in Westhoughton Cemetery, Lancashire, England. -
Memorial
Source: Municipal Review / War Memorials Souvenir Number (Vol. XXI, No. 2). Municipal Publishing Co., Ltd., Montreal, Quebec, 1925. Pte. William Brown indicated on his Military Attestation that he was a "Telephonist".
Digital gallery of
Private William Brown
Digital gallery of
Private William Brown
Digital gallery of
Private William Brown
Digital gallery of
Private William Brown
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 7 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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