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Flying Officer Sydney Brown

RCAF 420 Snowy Owl Squadron

(d.15th May 1943)

My uncle F/O Sydney Brown #J15744 (wireless operator, air gunner) took off on April 14, 1943 at 2112 hours from Middleton St. George flying a Wellington HE550 PT-G, on a mission to Stuttgart. Homebound at 12,000 feet the plane was shot down by a Ju 88 and crashed at Mesnil-St Laurent (Aisne), 5 km SE of St. Quentein, France.

F/O Sydney Brown and P/O J A Simpson are buried in the churchyard at Mesnil-St Laurent. S/L F V Taylor and F/O G C Crowther bailed out and eventually returned to England. Sgt H N McKinnon was taken prisoner and was eventually repatriated. I believe Sydney Brown was billeted with a British family. I am looking for anyone who knew him.



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