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Son of James and Eleanor Brown. Husband of Mrs. W. R. J. Brown of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer William Raymond James Brown
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Raymond James Brown
Pilot Officer William Raymond James Brown is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Raymond James Brown
Pilot Officer William Raymond James Brown is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Raymond James Brown
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Raymond James Brown
I believe this photo to be of my grandfathers crew taken shortly before they died
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Raymond James Brown
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands.<P>
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)
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Raymond James Brown
Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Raymond James Brown
Grave marker
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Raymond James Brown
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Raymond James Brown
From the WW2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.March 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer William Raymond James Brown
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Image gallery
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Pilot Officer William Raymond James Brown is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Pilot Officer William Raymond James Brown is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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I believe this photo to be of my grandfathers crew taken shortly before they died
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Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands.<P> 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)
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Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands
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Grave marker
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the WW2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.March 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
HARLINGEN GENERAL CEMETERY Netherlands
Harlingen, a town and port on the seaboard of the Waddenzee 38 kilometres west of Leeuwarden and 28 kilometres north-west of Sneek, is the port for the Frisian Islands of Vlieland and Terschelling. The HARLINGEN GENERAL CEMETERY is on the northern outskirts of the town, about 1 kilometre from the station. The British plot is to the left of the main path in the south-western part of the cemetery.
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