89 www.on.legion.ca ONTARIO COMMAND BROWN, Richard Allan Richard was born on December 9, 1984 in Burlington, Ontario. He enlisted on March 26, 2003 with the Navy Regular Force serving with the HMCS Iroquois, Athabaskan, Halifax, and Ville de Quebec. Richard served in Canada and the East Coast Navy. He was a Cadet Officer with Navy League of Canada with the NLCC VAdm Kingsmill, NLCC Carl Place, NLCC Cougar and NLCC Drummond. He was discharged on October 2, 2006. Richard was awarded the National President’s Commendation for Leadership and Courage when on August 4, 2012, he and three other members rescued stranded canoers in the St. Lawrence River. He is a four-year member of The Royal Canadian Legion. BROWN, Samuel Henry Samuel was born in Clinton, Ontario March 1, 1891, the youngest child of John and Mary Ann Brown. He served in the militia as a young man and later enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the World War I on December 6, 1915. Private Samuel Henry Brown sailed overseas in October 1916 aboard the S.S. Lapland and would see action on the Western Front with the Canadian Machine Gun Corps, 4th Company. He fought in the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917, was gassed by the enemy on August 10, and lost his life on August 20, 1917 after being fatally wounded with gunshot wounds to the face during the Battle of Hill 70. Brown was 26 years old and is buried at the Étaples Military Cemetery in France. Samuel Henry Brown is commemorated on the War Memorial in Clinton, Ontario. BROWN, Robert Fisher Robert was born in Coldwater, Ontario, on April 28, 1919. He was raised in nearby Orillia and graduated from the University of Toronto as a pharmacist in 1941. With World War II ongoing, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force on May 21, 1942, initially as an Observer, later re-classifying as Navigator. Flight Lieutenant Robert Brown trained as a Navigator in Canada and served overseas with No. 612 Squadron Royal Air Force. He later went to Northern Ireland as an instructor at an operational training unit. He was discharged onAugust 28, 1945, and later returned to university to study medicine. Back as a family doctor in Coldwater in 1952, he held his practice in that community for more than 33 years, retiring in 1986. He was an active member of The Royal Canadian Legion Coldwater Branch 270 for forty years. Dr. Robert Brown passed away on January 11, 1995.
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