BROWN, Gordon Scott
Service Numbers: | SX20048, S31617, 437490 |
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Enlisted: | 1 August 1942 |
Last Rank: | Flying Officer |
Last Unit: | No. 460 Squadron (RAAF) |
Born: | Riverton, South Australia, 7 January 1920 |
Home Town: | Alma, Wakefield, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Student - Soldier AIF |
Died: | Flying Battle, Germany, 3 February 1945, aged 25 years |
Cemetery: |
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany Plot 20. Row G. Grave 5. |
Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gawler Council WW2 Honour Roll, Gawler RSL Memorial Wall, Hamley Bridge War Memorial, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Owen "In Honoured Memory" Plaque, Owen Alma District WW1 & WW2 Honour Roll, Riverton & District High School Roll of Honor WW2 |
World War 2 Service
1 Aug 1942: | Involvement Sergeant, S31617 | |
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1 Aug 1942: | Involvement Sergeant, SX20048 | |
1 Aug 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, SX20048 | |
1 Aug 1942: | Enlisted Gawler, SA | |
25 Feb 1943: | Discharged | |
27 Feb 1943: | Involvement Flying Officer, 437490 | |
27 Feb 1943: | Enlisted Adelaide | |
27 Feb 1943: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 437490 | |
Date unknown: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 437490, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF) | |
Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Henry Wyndham BROWN of Alma via Hamley Bridge, SA
Husband of Margaret Heather BROWN of 1 Turner Street, Gawler, SA
Mrs. G. S. Brown, of Gawler East, has been advised that her husband, FO Gordon Scott Brown, is missing from air operations in a European theatre. FO Brown is the elder son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Brown, of Alma. Before her marriage Mrs. Brown was Miss Margaret Longmire, of Gawler.