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Son of James and Ivy Alice (nee Cumplen) Brown of Mission City, British Columbia. Brother of James and Isobel.
1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp. Posthumously awarded RCAF Operational Wings in recognition of gallant service in action against the enemy, the 7 March 1947.
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Flying Officer Robert Allen Brown
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Flying Officer Robert Allen Brown
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Robert Allen Brown
Family photo, Rheinburg, War Cenetery Germany
171 Sqdn Halifax ( LK874 ) airborne 2339hrs 16 April 1945 from North Creake. Collided in mid-air with a 156 Sqdn Lancaster ( PB403 ), the bulk of the debris being found in woods near Murlenbach-Godesbachtal Germany. Under the directions of American soldiers, all the bodies of both crews were recovered by German civilians and buried in a mass grave alongside the road 200yrd from Murlenbach. Reburied 13th March 1948 Rheinberg British Cemetery.
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Family photo, Rheinburg, War Cenetery Germany 171 Sqdn Halifax ( LK874 ) airborne 2339hrs 16 April 1945 from North Creake. Collided in mid-air with a 156 Sqdn Lancaster ( PB403 ), the bulk of the debris being found in woods near Murlenbach-Godesbachtal Germany. Under the directions of American soldiers, all the bodies of both crews were recovered by German civilians and buried in a mass grave alongside the road 200yrd from Murlenbach. Reburied 13th March 1948 Rheinberg British Cemetery.
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Page 499 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY Germany
Rheinberg is 24 kilometres north of Krefeld and 13 kilometres south of Wesel, in the locality of Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfal. The cemetery is 3 kilometres south of the centre of the town of Rheinberg on the road to Kamp Lintfort. From the motorway 57, turn off at Rheinberg and at the T junction follow the 510 in the direction Kamp Lintfort. The cemetery is a short way along this road on the right.
The site of Rheinberg War Cemetery was chosen in April 1946 by the Army Graves Service for the assembly of Commonwealth graves recovered from numerous German cemeteries in the area. The majority of those now buried in the cemetery were airmen, whose graves were brought in from Dusseldorf, Krefeld, Munchen-Gladbach, Essen, Aachen and Dortmund; 450 graves were from Cologne alone. The men of the other fighting services buried here mostly lost their lives during the battle of the Rhineland, or in the advance from the Rhine to the Elbe.
There are now 3,326 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated at Rheinberg War Cemetery. 156 of the burials are unidentified. There are also nine war graves of other nationalities, most of them Polish.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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