Reverend Brown ( an alumnus of Huron University College ) was already an ordained and practising minister , before he volunteered for service in the Canadian Army as part of the Canadian Chaplain Service on 1 April 1941 in Toronto , Ontario . He was eventually attached to an armoured regiment ( the 27th Armoured Regiment ( The Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment ) ) slated to land early on D-Day and he was therefore one of the first Canadian Military Chaplains to land in Normandy on Juno Beach on 6 June 1944 . Walter Brown was murdered ( by bayonetting ) , after surrendering to members of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend on 6 June . He was the only allied military chaplain to suffer this fate , although several were killed and wounded in action in World War II . The Hitlerjugend Waffen SS were notoriously brutal and murdered several Canadian Prisoners of War in the early stages of the Normandy Campaign ( see Ardenne Abbey massacre )
Ardenne Abbey massacre
Ardenne Abbey massacre
Walter Leslie Brown (Chaplain)