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First Battle of the Marne
This battle was between the French and British army against Germany who had invaded Belgium and northeastern France. The French threw back the massive German plan for a total victory over the Western Front. -
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The Second Battle of Ypres
This battle is very significant because this battle marked German’s first use of poison gas as a weapon. The Allied forces comprised the British Second Army; which included the 1st Canadian Division. -
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Battle of Somme
this battle was mainly in the trenches. The British and French forces joined together to achieve a victory over the Germans on the Western Front. This had also been the first time Britians’ new volunteer army took the leading role in a battle on the Western Front. -
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Battle of Vimy Ridge
This battle is Canada’s most celebrated military victory and also a symbol of the birth of Canadian national pride and awareness. This battle took place on the Western Front, in northern France. In this battle, for the first time, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps fought together. -
Lloyd Brown's Enlistment
Brown was only 16 when he joined the Navy. He had to be 18 to join, but he wanted to be like all the other boys and enlist; so he lied about his age. The age that he lied about is still on his driver’s license to this day because the government wanted to keep all the records and show his false age; also it would cost a fortune to change. -
Brown's Training
Brown had basic training they sent him to the Great Lakes training station in Illinois and Chicago. And they teach him how to rowboats, How to splice big groups together. The big ropes were for Tying ships up to the docks back in the day. on the New Hampshire boat, had a wooden deck. Tables were kept in the ceiling and they would bring it down to set them on the deck to serve their meals and then after they are over, they put it back up in the ceiling so the deck will be clear. -
Brown's Battles
Brown was on the New Hampshire boat, on deck. His crew was on the lookout for submarines. One time, he was under gun crew and Brown's crew thought they saw a submarine ahead, so he started firing at what they thought was a submarine. After they started firing, the submarine went underwater. Brown’s main duty for the war was to keep the shipping lanes open and clear of submarines. One time, they captured a German submarine, took it back to the Philadelphia Navy Yard. It became an attraction -
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Battle of Amiens
This brought the end to World War I. The Canadian and Allied troops won against Germany. The Allied Powers, alongside Henry Rawlinson, attacked with 75,000 men, over 500 tanks, and roughly 2,000 planes. Even though the battle was a few days, from the battle you could tell that the war for the Germans was unattainable. -
Armistice
Brown was in Philadelphia Navy Yard when they signed the Armistice. But they didn’t let him out right away. It was signed in November 1918 and he wasn’t let out until October 1919. Brown was an ordinary seaman, he kept the ships clean and then decks holystoned. He was reported into Active duty on April 2, 1918, and he was released from duty on October 6, 1919. So he was basically in the Navy for a year and a half; almost 2 years. -
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Life after WWI for Brown
Brown met a girl named Eileen Hulland, a girl from Nova Scotia, and married her and have two kids. Later Eileen became homesick and on one of her visits back home, she decided she wanted to stay home, so they ended up getting a divorce. They had a boy and a girl, and when Brown was in Nova Scotia, he child napped his son and took him back to the United States. Two years later, his son went back to his mother; and so did his daughter, Juanita.
