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Flight Lieutenant Brass attended McDougall School, Crescent Heights High School and Mount Royal College. He took flying lessons prior to volunteering for service with the RCAF, and subsequently graduated in March 1942 from No. 10 Flying Service Training School at Dauphin, Manitoba.
Following his transfer to Europe, Flight Lieutenant Brass served as a Flight Instructor in Northern England. After requesting assignment to active service three times, he was assigned to #105 Squadron, Pathfinder Force (R.A.F.)
On 11 December 1944, he was returning from an attack upon Bielefeld, Germany while piloting a Mosquito aircraft #MM152. The severely damaged plane crashed two and one half miles east of Newmarket, Suffolk England.
Flight Lieutenant Brass was survived by his parents and sisters Mary and Margaret, and brother, Signalman Arthur Brass (RCN).
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Page 257 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY Surrey, United Kingdom
Brookwood is 30 miles from London (M3 to Bagshot and then A322). The main entrance to Brookwood Military Cemetery is on the A324 from the village of Pirbright. Brookwood Military Cemetery is owned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom, covering approximately 37 acres.
In 1917, an area of land in Brookwood Cemetery (originally The London Necropolis) was set aside for the burial of men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth and Americans, who had died, many of battle wounds, in the London district. This site was further extended to accommodate the Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War, and American, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French and Polish plots containing the graves of Allied casualties. There are also German and Italian plots where prisoners of war lie buried.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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