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Robert M. Brown
Royal Nfld. Naval Volunteer Reserve
Enlisted:
Oct. 1915
Discharged (Invalided) 22 Feb. 1918
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Robert Brown
Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Enlisted in Royal Nfld Rgt. 24 Apr. 1918
Embarked for overseas on
HMS Columbella,
28 July 1918
Discharged 28 June 1919
Total Service: 28 months in RNVR and 14 months in the RNR.
Son of Henry Brown,
Separation Point and Red Bay, Labrador.
His RNR service record states his place of birth
as "Salvage Bay", Labrador. This was
probably the result of a mis-hearing by
the recruiting officer. The p.o.b. is
Sandwich Bay. They lived at Separation
Point prior to the family moving to
Red Bay.
The contact listed on his RNR attestation papers was: Cousin, Mrs. Ethel Saunders,
41 Freshwater Rd. St. John's, Nfld. (June 1918)