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Thumbs Up to the Red Baron-Thumbs Down to Roy Brown --Canada National War Museum

Thumbs Up to the Red Baron-Thumbs Down to Roy Brown –Canada National War Museum

Today I read an Ottawa Citizen article on the Lanark County Genealogical Society’s  Facebook page about the Canadian War Museum  who were providing Major-General Sir Isaac Brock’s coat to help a Grade 8 student’s history project. This is a fantastic way to get our youth to study history, so why can’t Carleton Place’s very own war hero Roy Brown be in the Canadian War Museum too so some student…

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Mystery Solved of Who Killed the Red Baron -- Again???

Mystery Solved of Who Killed the Red Baron — Again???

Lieutenant Donald Fraser, pictured here standing by the Red Baron’s grave, wrote the account of his death

An eye-witness accountdescribing the final moments of the fearsome German flyer known as the Red Baron has emerged for sale. Could solve once and for all the mystery over who did kill the ‘ace of aces’. Manfred von Richthofen who was credited with a staggering 80 kills in the war, was shot…

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Did Roy Brown Die Before He Killed the Red Baron?

Arthur Roy Brownwas born on December 23,1893 in Carleton Place, Ontario. He was the son of a flour mill and power company owner and was fascinated by aerial war and enlisted in 1915 as an Officer Cadet in the Canadian Army Officers’ Training Corps. Brown wanted to join the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) but his father, concerned at the high casualty rate for RFC pilots, declined Brown’s request for…

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