Wooden cross painted white erected in memory of Captain R.A. Brown  of the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders), died of wounds November 14, 1917.

No. 3 Company 15th Battalion C.E.F.

He is buried in Lijssenthoek Military cemetery near Poperinghe, Belgium.

At some point following the war, the Brown family obtained the original grave marker from their son’s grave at Lijssenthoek when the Commonwealth War Graves Commission removed all the wartime markers and replaced them with the standard headstones seen there today.

Captain Brown’s cross was located at the family crypt in the mausoleum at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto in 2013 by the 15th Battalion CF Memorial Project Team. In 2014 after locating and receiving the permission of the surviving members of Captain Brown’s family and with the cooperation of Mount Pleasant Cemetery, the cross was transferred on long term loan to the Regimental Museum of the 48th Highlanders of Canada who raised and perpetuate the 15th Battalion CEF.