Gordon Scott BROWN

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BROWN, Gordon Scott

Service Numbers:	SX20048, S31617, 437490
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
1 Aug 1942:	Involvement Sergeant, SX20048
1 Aug 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (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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Biography 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.

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