Earl J. Brown, my great uncle. On 31 Oct. 1944, my mother (then 8 - TopicsExpress



          

Earl J. Brown, my great uncle. On 31 Oct. 1944, my mother (then 8 yrs old) was preparing to go out trick-or-treating on Monument Hill, wearing Uncle Earls old boy scout uniform. Just then, the knock on the door and the accompanying telegram. He had been killed two weeks earlier, during the brutal Battle of the Scheldt, in Belgium. Buried in the Canadian War Cemetery at Adegem, Belgium, along with many other North Nova Scotia Highlanders.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:54:26 +0000

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