John Brown 931213 Private No. 2 Construction Battalion June 18, 1896 (birth record) (1898 on Attestation) Yarmouth, Nova Scotia August 28, 1916 Yarmouth, NS Yarmouth, NS 20 5 feet, 6½ inches Black Black Black Labourer Single African Methodist Episcopal Adelaide Brown (Mother) Yarmouth, NS February 15, 1919 (Halifax, NS) July 12, 1959 63 Mountain Cemetery, Yarmouth, NS John Brown was the son of John Brown (1854-1910) and Adelaide (Berry) Brown (1852-1918) of Brooklyn, Yarmouth, Co., NS. On November 28, 1929 John married Maude Annie Jarvis (1891-1936) in Brooklyn, Yarmouth Co., NS. Having trained in Canada, John embarked for overseas, on the SS Olympic at Halifax on July 31, 1917 arriving in Liverpool, England on August 15, 1917. He embarked England for service in France arriving there on April 3, 1918. While in England and France, he was hospitalized on several occasions suffering from influenza, acute bronchitis, and pleurisy. He returned to England on December 14, 1918 and embarked on the SS Empress of Britain for Canada on January 12, 1919. Having served in Canada, England, and France he was discharged on demobilization on February 15, 1919. His official death record gives his date of birth as September 22, 1898. John Brown died of pneumonia. He was buried in Mountain Cemetery on July 15, 1959.