Canadian Virtual War Memorial
John Spiers Brown
In memory of:
Private John Spiers Brown
March 9, 1920
Military Service
622198
30
Army
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
43rd Bn.
Additional Information
March 27, 1889
Glasgow, Scotland
March 18, 1915
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Spires Brown, Winnipeg, Manitoba; husband of Gerda W. Brown. He was a city fireman. He was discharged on 18 June 1918 being medically unfit for service.
Commemorated on Page 605 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
WINNIPEG (BROOKSIDE) CEMETERY
Manitoba, Canada
Mil. 317.
The cemetery is located immediately west of the Red River College, at 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba. During the First World War, Winnipeg was the headquarters of No 10 Military District and it contained six military hospitals of 972 beds. Air force and army training camps were established in the area during the Second World War, with No 103 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre at Fort Garry. Winnipeg (Brookside) Cemetery contains 299 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 149 from the Second World War, most of them in the special military plot.
Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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