The Reverend Walter Leslie Brown (13 August 1910 – 6 June 1944) was a Canadian military chaplain who was attached to the Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment, 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade during Operation Overlord.
[3] An alumnus of Huron University College, he was already an ordained and practising minister of the Anglican Church in Canada,[4] before he volunteered for service in the Canadian Army as part of the Canadian Chaplain Service[5] on 1 April 1941 in Toronto, Ontario.
[7] Walter Brown was murdered (by bayonetting),[8] after surrendering to members of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend on 6 June.
[9] He was the only allied military chaplain to suffer this fate, although several were killed and wounded in action in World War II.
[10][11] The Hitlerjugend Waffen SS were notoriously brutal[12] and murdered several Canadian Prisoners of War in the early stages of the Normandy Campaign.