Lois Brown (nee Wall) was born August 26, 1924 in Princetown, P.E.I. She grew up in that rural community, one of 10 children of Everett and Ella Wall. She grew up on a farm and remembers doing lots of chores in her early years. She attended the Fanning School in Malpeque up to Grade 8, at which time she went to Summerside and became a waitress. Not long after she headed to New Brunswick, where her sister was working. Lois would see the women recruits on parade in St. John, and she decided to join up herself. First she tried the RCAF, but she was too young, so she waited until she was 18 and joined the Canadian Women’s Army Corps (CWACs). She was sent to Kitchener, Ontario for her basic training, after which she went to the Barrick Green base in St. John. She worked initially as a plotter in the Gunnery Operations Room, and then as a telephone operator. She met her husband-to-be William at this time, and the two of them married in 1944. With that, Lois was demobilized in short order, and the two of them went on to build their own lives together and raise a family as the war drew to a close. Lois Brown was interviewed by Scott Masters at her home in Kensington, P.E.I. in July 2024.
