The story
Name: F E BROWN
Rank: Temp Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FAA/JX 236728
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 815 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Grebe, Dekheila, Egypt
Date of death: 1942-08-17
Aircraft: Swordfish V 4373, coded 'Q (or H)'
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 3, Panel 2
Family details: Son of Archibald and Lily Maude Brown of Merton Park, Surrey. Native of Morden, Balham, London
Rank: Temp Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FAA/JX 236728
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 815 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Grebe, Dekheila, Egypt
Date of death: 1942-08-17
Aircraft: Swordfish V 4373, coded 'Q (or H)'
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 3, Panel 2
Family details: Son of Archibald and Lily Maude Brown of Merton Park, Surrey. Native of Morden, Balham, London
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