Frederick Merle Brewer

Frederick Merle Brewer was born to Margaret Ellen Spurgeon Brewer and Theodore Brewer on July 7, 1899 in Salem, Washington County, Indiana. He worked as a laborer before he went to war. The description does not say if he was a farm laborer or if he worked in one of Salem's Count Seat stores.

He enlisted in the Canadian Army at some point earlier than the U.S. entry into war.  He was assigned to the Canadian Troops, Company B, W.O. Regiment tht were stations at Queens Park, London, Province of Ontario.  They were sent to France

Sent to France, Frederick Merle Brewer was killed in action on October 1, 1918 probably in the fighting near Douai, France as he is buried in the British Cemetery, southeast of Douai, France.