Lloyd Edison BROWN

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BROWN, Lloyd Edison

Service Number:	140627
Enlisted:	29 June 1943
Last Rank:	Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Cowell, South Australia, 29 July 1910
Home Town:	Cumberland Park, Mitcham, South Australia
Schooling:	Norwood Central School, Adelaide, South Australia
Occupation:	Truck Driver
Died:	Adelaide, South Australia, 1 April 1996, aged 85 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia
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World War 2 Service

29 Jun 1943:	Involvement 140627
29 Jun 1943:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
29 Jun 1943:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 140627
7 Jan 1946:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

One of five siblings and numerous cousins to serve in WWII, Leading Aircraftman Lloyd Edison Brown (Service No:140627) enlisted in the RAAF at No 5 Recruiting Centre Adelaide on 29 June 1943 as an Aircraftman I - mustered as Aircraft Hand. ACI Brown served in the Northern Territory at 15 Aircraft Repair Depot (ARD) Gorrie and in New Guinea (25 September 1943 - 8 January 1945), and was promoted to Leading Aircraftman on 6 January 1944. LAC Brown was attached to 4 Squadron Norcom in 1944, and was attached to 6 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) at Discharge on 7 January 1946.

Lloyd was born in Cowell, Franklin Harbour, South Australia in 1910, third of six children of Harold Henry Sidney Brown (b1882 at South Hummocks on the Yorke Peninsula, South Australia) and Mary Anne Kempster (b1884 in Magill, South Australia). Harold was a Labourer in Kadina in 1903 when he and Mary married in New Town in Kadina, and they lived there and in Cowell before settling in Adelaide by 1912. Harold worked as a Labourer, and for the Tramways as a Conductor and Motor Man.

Lloyd worked in Adelaide as a Truck Driver for P Johnston Contractors, and in 1928/1929 served with the Militia (54th Field Artillery). In 1943 in Woodford in Adelaide, Lloyd married Mavis Sada Brooks (b1924 in Magill, South Australia). Lloyd and Mavis settled in Adelaide, where they raised their family - Lloyd died in 1996 and Mavis in 2010.

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