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Lloyd Browns early life
Loyd brown was born in October 7 1901, in Lutie Missouri. He was the 4th child of 9 children, He lived in a farming town with his family. Later he and his family decided to moved to to Chadwick, Mo. He married a canadian woman on Christmas ave and had a son and a daughter. -
Sidney Lewis
Sidney Lewis was the youngest person to join ww1. He lied about his age, and he was able to join war, He was one of the most of the kids that joined the war but he was the youngest. He was born in March 12, 1903 he enlisted to war on August 1915. He went to war because his whole family went to war. That expired him to join the war and enlisted, but after a little while his mom know that he joined and had him discharged. -
invention of the tanks
In 1915 the first tank was invented, it was the worst tank. it would get stuck inside of trenches and would go 2 mph! and weighed 14 tons. but there was an improvement. since it would get stuck everywhere they decided to add a belt like tires. the tank wasn’t used for fighting though they were used to bring water to the Battlefield, and that's how its name was found as “Tank”. -
Germans Fire
At the beginning of the war germany shoot shells to the french trenches. The shells were filled with of course poisonous gas. The lines of the french were about to collapse but they didn’t. it wasn’t enough to bring them down and germany didn’t get the advantage of the breach. -
The Sinking of Lusitania
On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania boat was sunk by Germany. There were 1,128 dead when the boat sunk including 128 Americans aboard who also died. This really made the U.S chose a side and make the U.S. not neutral and fight Germany. The ship was owned by the Cunard Shipping Line, which was launched in 1906 to carry passengers on transatlantic voyages. -
Journalists risks
Most of the Journalist wanted to see what was going on during the war. So most of them would risk their lives and go in the war and see what was the realities of war.
As the Government sought to control the amount of information from the frontline at the start of the war, the journalists were banned. they were banned because some would help the enemy, but if caught they would have a death penalty. -
A loud explosion
there was an extremely loud explosion. this happened in france when the allies were fighting the central states. Miners dug 19 underground tunnels under the trenches and under the feet of the soldiers of the germans. The miners dug out about 100 ft underground and at Messines Ridge where about 900,000 lbs of explosives. Much of the german front line was exploded and the explosion was heard more than 140 miles away!!! the explosion was at france and heard it all the way to london!!! -
Colorful Makeovers
During the war, the ships that carried military supplies and food were being sunk. So there was some artist like Norman Wilkinson that had an idea, their idea was to add shapes on the boat. And also patterns so it would work like camouflage. this was called Dazzle Camouflage to confuse enemies rather than conceal the ships. -
how Lloyd Brown got into the marines
In 1918, when he was 16 he joined the Navy. He faked his age so he could join the Navy. He was soon the gun crew on the battleship New Hampshire. He finished his tour duty 1919. He took a break for a couple of years and then he relisted to the navy. He also learned how to play the cello while he was there and joined a orchestra while aboard the armored cruise. -
Battle of Cantigny
This was the first Sustained American offence, and were around 4,000 American soldiers captured the village of Cantigny from germany. on May 28, the french allies was defeated at Aisne river, the french army provided air cover, artillery, heavy tanks effective tactic teams of flamethrowers to help the U.S. go through the German village. American soldiers captured 100 prisoners on that day. 200 soldiers were killed and around 200 were incapacitated because of german gas attacks -
Letters
12 million letters were sent every week in total there were 2 billion letters after the war. it took 2 days for the letters to get from britain to reach the front in france. they were sent for different reasons why they sent them. One reason was to receive well wishes, and other reasons was to fight boredom because they were bored of the fight and was also a distraction from the war. -
After his life as a Marine
Lloyd finally finished his marine career at age 23 in the year 1925. after he ended his career he joined the Engine Company 16, which was the District of Columbia Fire Department. Which he served the white house and he also served the embassies.
He got divorced and married Sadie Mae Rutherford in 1938 at age 36. -
More Events
Lloyd Settled at Washington and he also had two daughters with his new wife and has 4 in total. Lloyd still worked at the fire department until the 1950’s when he stopped. then he and his family moved one more time to Prince George Country. Then he also moved to Eastern Shore of Maryland. Last they retired in Florida but returned to Maryland in 1993 because Saide Brown’s Health. She died on 1998. -
Last U.SVeteran
Lloyd Brown was the last American ww1 veteran Lloyd Brown was dead on 2007. The last one that was alive was Florence Green, who was the last veteran to be alive. Lloyd was 105 when he died, while Green died when she was 110. Lloyd died on March 29, 2007, and Florence on February 4, 2012.
