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Military service
Service number:
J/5227
Age:
21
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
408 Sqdn.
Death:
March 27, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 99.
Additional information
Son of Thomas Allsop Brown and Mary Charlotte Beaumont Brown, of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant William Beaumont Brown
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Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
18 January 1942 408 Canadian Bomber Squadron. Pilot Officer W.B. Brown, from Victoria, B.C., pilot in 408 R.C.A.F, Bomber Squadron, in front of a Hampden, Pilot Officer Brown succeeded in bringing back, on one engine, their Hampden Bomber. When on a raid over Germany, the bomb doors failed to open on 2 runs over the target in intense AA fire. After abandoning the target, the bomb doors suddenly opened. The bombs were dropped and after passing through another heavy barrage of AA fire, one engine ceased to operate. The aircraft was brought home over 300 miles on one engine and a good landing made on reaching base.
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18 January 1942 408 Canadian Bomber Squadron. Pilot Officer W.B. Brown, from Victoria, B.C., pilot of a Hampden bomber in the UK.
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Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Lieutenant William Beaumont Brown is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Lieutenant William Beaumont Brown is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant William Beaumont Brown
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant William Beaumont Brown
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant William Beaumont Brown
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant William Beaumont Brown
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant William Beaumont Brown
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant William Beaumont Brown
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 61 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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