LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Peter Robert Duncan BROWN
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 88403 (RAFVR)
Born: Date, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 50 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Lindholme
Died: Air Operations (No. 50 Squadron Hampden I aircraft AD797), Belgium, 3 June 1941, Aged 19 Years
Buried: Leopoldsburg War Cemetery, Limburg, Belgium
CWGC Additional Information: Son of John Duncan Brown and Hilda Frances Brown, of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Hampden AD797 took off from Lindholme to attack Dusseldorf. The aircraft crashed in Belgium and all four crew members were killed.
The crew members of AD797 were:
Pilot Officer Peter Robert Duncan Brown (88403) (RAFVR) (Second Pilot)
Sergeant George Thomas Cheetham (951748) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant John Todd Donnelly (643184) (RAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Phillip Booth Hodgson (83725) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
References:
Chorley W R Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War Volume 2 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1941, Midland Counties Publications Leicester UK, 1993
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records