A Soldier's Story: Private Claude Brown - WWI

Private Claude Brown was born September 4/9, 1895, in Abbeville, Alabama. He worked as a farm laborer on the Solomon and Oates Farm.  In June 1917, in response to WWI, he enlisted in the US Army and was assigned to the 157th Depot Brigade at Camp Gordon, Georgia.

He served until early 1919 before returning to Abbeville.  

In 1928, Private Claude Brown relocated to Roanoke, Virginia, dying on September 26, 1933 of tuberculosis.

He rests at the Old Lick Cemetery in Roanoke, Virginia

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