Robert Whitcomb “Burt” Brown

Home Town: Winnipeg, Manitoba Conflict: World War II Branch: Navy

  • Alexi Makarov - Minister/Counsellor of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, is presenting to Robert Brown a commemorative medal recognizing his service in the Murmansk Convoys. Photo taken in Edmonton, Alberta, November 1987.
  • Mr. Brown wrote home to tell his Dad about the Battle of North Cape of the sinking of the Scharnhorst in the Arctic north of Norway. Mr. Brown's father gave the letter to <em>The Winnipeg Free Press</em> who published scripts.
  • Robert Brown in Winnipeg, Manitoba, August 1943.
  • Canadians serving on British cruiser HMS <em>Belfast</em>, in Iceland, December 1943. Robert Brown is in back row, right side. His friend Rex Jarvis is in centre, back row. They were together through all their service and when they were discharged, they married sisters.
  • Robert Brown's Service Medals: 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; France and Germany Star; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; War Medal (1939-45); British Arctic Emblem; Russian Commemorative Medal.
Alexi Makarov - Minister/Counsellor of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, is presenting to Robert Brown a commemorative medal recognizing his service in the Murmansk Convoys. Photo taken in Edmonton, Alberta, November 1987. Robert Brown
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