South Similkameen Branch 192
SOLDIERS OF THE SOUTH SIMILKAMEEN
… I saw the rest of the Keremeos boys at Shorncliffe and we had a few good times together. I think they are “somewhere” in France now, least I had a line from Joe Brown last week saying they were all packed ready to leave any hour….
Billly Hope
Queens Medal
Awarded to all who served in South Africa between 11 October 1899 and 31 May 1902 (during the Boer War).
Bars awarded to J.A. Brown for service at Cape Colony, Orange Free State & Transvaal.
Joseph Alexander Brown
Service No. 107085
Born: 9 July 1871 1
Died: Unknown
Son of Robert Malcom & Hannah Brown 2
Sgt - 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles
Pvt - “D” Battery, Royal Canadian Field Artillery, South Africa
Joesph Brown, one of 6 children, was born in Ontario to parents Robert & Hanna Brown. Although his parents were Quakers at the time of Joe’s birth, his lists himself as Methodist during the South Africa War and Church of England on his military documents from WW1.
Joe enlisted in the 6th Field Artillery in 1899. In 1901 he was stationed in South Africa with “D” Battery. He was awarded the Queens Medal for South Africa service with 3 bars - Cape Colony, Orange Free State & Transvaal. He returned home in 1902.
After the death of his mother in 1910, Joe and his family moved to Manitou, MB. His father passed in 1911 and in 1904 Joe married his wife Louise Beatrice Lloyd.
By 1911, Joe and Louise were living in Keremeos on land granted to them for his service with the British Forces in South Africa, 2nd Regiment from 10 December 1901 to 22 July 1902 4.
Joe Brown was a Customs Broker when he enlisted in the CEF 1914 and he served overseas until 1918 when he returned to Winnipeg as an Instructor.
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