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Military service
Service number:
R/111993
Age:
23
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
51 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
August 23, 1919
Allenburg, Ontario
Enlistment:
July 31, 1941
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
May 24, 1943
Dortmund, Germany
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 5. C. 13-17.
Additional information
Son of James and Martha (nee Armstrong) Brown of Thorold, Ontario
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Flight Sergeant William Brown is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant William Brown is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the St Catharines Standard c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Brown
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Brown
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Brown
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant William Brown
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 141 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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