No soldier photo found.
Service # 2448392

Regimental number: 2448392. Reference: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Present address: 213 Locust St. Detroit, Michigan, USA. Born at Port Stanley, ON. Next of kin: Mrs. May Brown, a chauffeur, (single) – Vaccinated- Yes. No previous Military experience – two yrs. with the 24th Kent Regt. in Chatham, ON. Attestation: 30/05/17 at Windsor, ON.

Attestation: 21 yrs. 9 mths., Height: 5′ 3 ½” , Girth: 34”, Complexion: Fair, Eyes: Brown, Hair: Brown, Hearing R & L: Good, Vision: Poor. “Fit”, 30/05/17 at Windsor, ON. 

Embarked Canada – 30/09/17 HMT. – Disembarked – England 17/10/17 – Proceeded to England .

To Canada 5/05/19 from Liverpool 6/05/1919 – London – Disc. 10/06/19 “MEDICALLY UNFIT. 1/08/18 (59 CCS. – Defective Vision – 6/18/18 to 2nd  CMMG – Field. Sailing No. 59 – 6/05/19 Emb. 83 – 4/07/19 – To Canada also Defective Vision 31/05/19 at London, ON6/05/19 (Dispersal Station “K” – 17/05/19 – Posted to Hosp. section – Admitted to hospital (VD) 27/05/19 . Disc for VD (Non-Stoppage) Neg. 10/06/19. 

Discharge Certificate: BROWN, Kenneth Elmo. 21st Regt. O/S. Draft – WINDSOR, ON. 13/05/1917 – SERVICE at Canada, England and France (with Canadian Machine-Gun Corp 

“On Sunday 26/01/18 while proceeding by cycle with messages for G.O. – The machine  threw me on the road”. 2 C.M.M.G Bd. 12/02/19 – 7/19/19 SOS of the OM to Canada – 11/04/18 – Placed under as top – 17/10/17 to Liverpool to board the S. S. Metagama 

MEDICALLY UNFIT for GENERAL SERVICE.

“Appendix Scar, Loss of  Disable – Digit Finger on Left Hand 10/06/1919. I. D. 30-B-2029 – D. D. 10/-B-842. Date of Admission 17/05/19 Date of Discharge 27/05/1919. Gonorrhea 5/08/1919 – Dated 16/06/1919 also 8/06/17 – 19/06/17 for Tonsils. Convalrnuch – No discharge and feeling. Boarded on 227 for DISCHARGE. “ Left Hand AMPUTATED at 2ND Joint. – “Fit for ‘C’st. “A” at London, ON. 31/05/1919 – Def. Vision – SPECIAL DUTY overseas? “Nose – Nasopharynx – R.E. –Ear LE. , NOSE: PHARYNX – Condition to be expected.

Venereal Disease (Gonorrhea) 17/05/19. Discharged: 27/05/1919. SA & AP 4/02/1919 – 28/12/18 from 1/02/1919 – injured 15/02/1919. 20/04/18 – Defective Vision.  

Medically Unfit: for general service. (P.D.P) 10/06/19. His mother moved to 479 Henry St., Detroit, Michigan 

DEMOB: “Medically Unfit for General Service – 10/06/1919 at London, ON”.  


Notice something wrong with this record? Or, do you have something to add? Report it using our online form.

Add A Chatham-Kent Hero

Submit a C-K Veteran who served in WWI or WWIIAdd Hero