Arthur William Henry (Bill) BROWN

BROWN, Arthur William Henry

Service Number: 79057
Enlisted: 9 October 1942
Last Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit: Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots
Born: Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 25 March 1905
Home Town: Amberley, Ipswich, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Booval, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 6 August 1983, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Ipswich General Cemetery, Qld
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World War 2 Service

9 Oct 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 79057, Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots
13 Oct 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 79057, 6 Recruitment Sandgate, QLD
15 Mar 1943: Transferred Leading Aircraftman, RAAF Transport and Movement Offices, Port Moresby, New Guinea
19 Aug 1944: Transferred Leading Aircraftman, 3 Personnel Depot, Sandgate, QLD
6 Dec 1945: Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 79057, Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots
12 Dec 1945: Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, 79057, Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots
Date unknown: Involvement Leading Aircraftman, 79057

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Arthur (Bill) was the second of three children of Frederick George Brown (born 1874 at Rosewood in the Darling Downs in QLD) and Sarah Jane Cawthray (born 1879 in Brisbane, QLD). Bill was five years of age when his mother died in 1910, and his father remarried Sarah Rosalie Haun in 1913. Bil's half brother Frederick was born in 1914.

Bill's younger brother Roy served in the RAAF (Service No: 24768). Bill was living in Amberley, Ipswich QLD and working as a Labourer when he married Ruby Beckwith (born 1914 in Flinders, QLD) in 1935. The couple continued to live there where Bill worked as a Labourer,

In 1942 Bill enlisted in the RAAF in Brisbane, QLD and served as a Leading Aircraftman - General Hand (Service No: 79057) until he was Discharged in 1945.

Bill and Roby continued living at Amberley where Bill worked as a Labourer. He died in 1980 in Booval in Ipswich, QLD and Ruby died in 2000 in Ipswich, QLD

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