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Private Borden Bruce Brown

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Korean War Monument

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Military service

Service number: M800239
Age: 24
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Division: 2nd Battalion
Birth: January 25, 1927 Springhill, Nova Scotia
Enlistment: August 15, 1950 Calgary, Alberta
Death: February 23, 1951 South Korea

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Plot 2, Row 1, Grave 46
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Son of Roy Thurlo and Beatric Etna Brown of Joggins, N.S. Brother of Allison Roy, Leslie James and Elsie Eudora.

Pte Brown is commemorated on the Nova Scotia Korean War Memorial with his fellow Nova Scotians who lost their lives in the Korean War. The Memorial is located at Pleasant and Park Streets in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. It was unveiled and dedicated in a ceremony on 16 August 2003.

Also commemorated on the Wall of Remembrance.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 8 of the Korean War Book of Remembrance.
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UNITED NATIONS CEMETERY (BUSAN) South Korea

The United Nations Cemetery is located in Tanggok, a suburb of Busan. The land for the cemetery was granted to the United Nations by the Republic of Korea as a tribute to all those who had laid down their lives in combatting aggression and in upholding peace and freedom. There are 2,267 servicemen buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery. Of these 1,538 were Commonwealth soldiers, including 376 Canadians.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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