Private Douglas Brown was 25 year old painter living in Sudbury, Ontario and originally from Hove, Sussex with pre-war service in the 1st Royal Sussex Regiment and the Royal Field Artillery when he attested into the 15th Battalion at Valcartier in September 1914. Like many of the Officers and men of the original battalion, his was a short war. He suffered a serious GSW in the right arm and was blinded in the right eye by the chlorine gas on April 24, 1915 during the battle of 2nd Ypres. He was medically evacuated to No. 9 Casualty Clearing Station and from there to the Australian Hospital, Wimereux. He was sent to the UK and attach posted to the 17th Reserve Battalion while receiving medical treatment at No. 3 Western General Hospital, Cardiff and Upper Hall Hospital, Ledbury. He was assessed as medically unfit for further service and returned to Canada in September 1915 where he was discharged. His file does not contain the details but he died of his service related wounds on February 11, 1920 and is buried in Sudbury (Eyre) Cemetery.