Thursday 19 July 2007

Private Cecil Everett Brown

Born on 3 May 1895 in Frankford, Ontario - son of Egbert and Mary Brown, Belleville, Ontario - recruitment records provide the following: present address in Belleville, Ontario, single, Methodist, trade as farmer, no current or previous military service, height of 5 feet 5 inches, chest of 36 inches fully expanded, dark complexion, blue eyes, brown hair.

Conscripted into the 1st Depot Battalion, Eastern Ontario Regiment, in Kingston, Ontario, on 21 January 1918 (number 3020592) - taken on the strength of the 38th Canadian Infantry Battalion in France on 9 or 10 August 1918 - killed in action on 29 September 1918 - buried in Bourlon Wood Cemetery (grave II.B.23), France.

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