Samuel H. Brown (nonfiction)
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Samuel Henry Brown was a British private who kept a diary.
Biography
Samuel Henry Brown was born in Clinton, Ontario in 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 First World War. Private Brown sailed overseas in October 1916 and would see action on the Western Front with the Canadian Machine Gun Corps. He fought in the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 and lost his life on August 20, 1917, after being seriously wounded during the Battle of Hill 70. Brown was 26 years old and is buried at the Étaples Military Cemetery in France.