Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Memorial – Pilot Officer William Raymond James Brown is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Pilot Officer William Raymond James 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

Group Photo – I believe this photo to be of my grandfathers crew taken shortly before they died

Newspaper clipping – Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper clipping – From the WW2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.March 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

Newspaper Clipping – Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me

Cemetery – Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands

Grave Marker – Grave marker

Grave Marker – Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands. T2879 was one of four 99 Sqdn Wellingtons lost on this operation. See: W5436; X9761; Z8869. Airborne 1924 28Sep41 from Waterbeach on a mission over Frankfurt. Last heard on W/T some ten hours after getting airborne and almost certainly out of fuel. Crashed in the sea. Sgt Robertson and Sgt Macdonald are buried in Den Burg General Cemetery; P/O Brown is buried in Harlingen General Cemetery; the rest of the crew have no known graves. Sgt J.S.Parry RNZAF KIA Sgt I.J.Robertson KIA P/O W.R.J.Brown RCAF KIA Sgt A.W.M.Chapman RAAF KIA Sgt H.McL Macdonald RNZAF KIA Sgt E.Fieldhouse KIA (//lostbombers.co.uk)