Lionel James BROWN

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Service Number:	413536
Enlisted:	12 September 1941
Last Rank:	Flying Officer
Last Unit:	No. 200 Flight (RAAF)
Born:	Scone, New South Wales, Australia, 13 August 1918
Home Town:	Mayfield, Waratah, New South Wales
Schooling:	Public School, Scone, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Inspector (Socket Department), Stewards & Lloyds Steel Mills.
Died:	Flying Battle, Timor, 17 May 1945, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia CWGC Grave No: Plot 1. Row C. Coll. Grave 1-15. Inscription: "THE GREATER LOVE".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flying Officer, 413536
12 Sep 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 413536
21 Sep 1941:	Enlisted Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
17 May 1945:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, No. 200 Flight (RAAF), Air War SE Asia 1941-45, Killed in air operations over Erbian Aileu near Dilly, Timor.

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Previously flown Wellington, Lancaster, Kittyhawk, Anson, Spitfire, Wirraway, Oxford

Plane was Liberator A72-159. Crached into a mountain near a Timorese village named Erbain

Son of Alfred Arnold and Margaret Ethel Brown, of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.