The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 67 BROW, John Smith WWI John was born in Kirnemuir, Scotland, in 1891. He joined the Cpl 188th Overseas Battalion and served in France. He passed away in 1972. BROWN, John Farnholm “Jack” WWI Jack, as he was called, never knew his parents and spent most of his childhood in the Lord Barnard Home for Boys in London. He and a close friend, Tom Cook, served in the Royal Naval Reserve and came to Canada in 1910. Jack joined the Royal Canadian Engineers and served on the continent in WWI. After the war, he married Dorothy Blaber and had one child. They farmed in the New England District 6, then he began work with the soldier settlement board. Soon after, he moved to Vancouver where he later passed away. BROWN, Tom Gordon WWI Tom was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1891 and enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in December 1915 serving in Canada for nine months, England for sixteen months and France for nine months. By the end of the war, he was with the 2nd Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade. During WWII, he served in the Saskatchewan Veterans Civil Security Corps. Tom demobilized in the spring of 1919 and returned to farming in the Havelock area, which is northeast of Strasbourg, Saskatchewan. Tom passed away in 1984. BROWN, Robert Allen PEACETIME Robert started his military career in January 1953, and over the course of the next five years, he was stationed aboard the following: Unicorn - OS, Cornwallis - OS, Stadacona - OS, Sioux - OS, Naden - OS, Sault Ste. Marie - AB, Stadecona (Ste. Therese) - AB, Ste. Therese - AB, Malahat - AB, Cordova - AB, Ontario – LSQMI and Naden (RC) – LSQMI.
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