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Military service
Service number:
701195
Age:
30
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
16th Bn.
Birth:
August 19, 1886
Morris, Manitoba
Enlistment:
February 22, 1916
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
September 28, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XIX. B. 6.
Additional information
Brother of Charles Brown of North Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Digital gallery of Private Edwin Emslie Brown
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Photo of Edwin Emslie Brown
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Group Photo
101st Bn, A Company, 3rd Platoon -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. He was discovered and exhumed at a later date and now rests in a marked grave.May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private Edwin Emslie Brown
Digital gallery of
Private Edwin Emslie Brown
Digital gallery of
Private Edwin Emslie Brown
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 59 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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