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Military service
Service number:
193002
Age:
21
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Division:
1st Tramway Coy.
Birth:
October 29, 1896
Enlistment:
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 20, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. C. 20.
Digital gallery of Sapper Harry Ernest Brain
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Biography
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Biography
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of Harry Brain
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Brabant to Britton. Mircoform Sequence 13; Volume Number 131829_B016722; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 156 Page 213 of 906 -
Burlington Ontario War Memorial (1922)
Located next to Burlington's City Hall on Brant Street. -
Inscription
WWI - Detail of names carved upon the Burlington War Memorial. -
Monument
Sapper Harry Ernest Brain's name appears on the S.O.E. war memorial, Greenwood Cemetery, Burlington, Ontario. -
Inscription
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Badge
Cap Badge Canadian Engineers. Sapper Brain enlisted with the 92nd Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada) but was transferred to the Engineers as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt (ret’d) V. Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Badge
Cap Badge 92nd Bn (48th Highlanders of Canada). Sapper Brain enlisted in the 92nd Bn but was transferred to the 1st Tramway Company Canadian Engineers as a reinforcement. Submitted by Capt (ret'd) V.Goldman, 15th Bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator September 1918........Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sapper Harry Ernest Brain
Digital gallery of
Sapper Harry Ernest Brain
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 373 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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