Military Service Recognition Book

71 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND BROWN, William John William was born on March 14, 1916 in Toronto, Ontario. He married Loretta on July 23, 1938. They had three sons and a daughter. He enlisted in the Canadian Army Service Corp on January 10, 1944 and served in England, Holland and Belgium during World War II as a supply line driver and an ambulance driver. He was discharged from the Army on April 18, 1946. He was a member of the Legion Branch 6 in Owen Sound, ON for 44 years. William passed away on August 22, 1992. BROWNE, Leslie Herbert Leslie was born on June 28, 1916 in Port Arthur, Ontario. He enlisted in the Army on May 8, 1941 with the 2nd Canadian Infantry, Royal Canadian Engineers, 11th Field Company. He served in Canada, United Kingdom and Continental Europe during World War II. On September 13, 1944 at Bray Dunes near Dunkirk, Lt. Brown was wounded while carrying out a RECCE on a road block reported by the South Saskatchewan Regiment. He and his partner were fired on by a sniper. Leslie’s pelvis was fractured by a bullet. The remainder of his service was spent in hospital and rehabilitation. He was discharged on November 19, 1945. Leslie was a member of the Elliot Lake Legion Branch 561, which his son Kris Browne was a founding member of. Leslie passed away on March 14, 1976. BROWN (SIRETT), Wilma Flowers Wilma was born on December 18, 1917 in Minnedosa, Manitoba. She enlisted in the RCAMC on February 29, 1944 as 2nd Lieutenant Nursing Sister. In England at #23 Canadian General Hospital she experienced the horror of buzz bombs and V2 rockets. She met Captain Brown RCAMC there and they later married. She was sent to #14 CGH in Perugia, Italy. Wilma kept a journal and she wrote about being with our boys when they died. “I like the work on nights. But I’ve had some pretty sick ones too-one in particular- we called him “Junior”. Junior stepped on a land mine it took his legs and both eyes and damaged him internally. I thought how comforting it would surely be to a lot of mothers back home to know their boys were being watched. A horrid sort of fear clutches me when I’m alone with a boy when he dies – I feel so inadequate – I’m not his people – or his mother – or his wife – yet I’m all three without choice”. She was discharged on March 6, 1946. Wilma passed away on October 18, 1993.

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