John Erskine Brown MACLEAN

MACLEAN, John Erskine Brown

Service Number: 434641
Enlisted: 1 January 1943
Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 23 May 1923
Home Town: Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Air operations, Koetschen, Germany, 14 January 1945, aged 21 years
Cemetery: Choloy War Cemetery, France
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Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Toowoomba Roll of Honour WW2, Toowoomba WW2 Roll of Honour Book, Toowoomba War Memorial (Mothers' Memorial)
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Flight Sergeant, 434641
1 Jan 1943: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 434641

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Lancaster NN722 of 9SQN RAF was shot down near Leuna, Merseburg, Germany on the 14th of January 1945 with 6 out of the 7 crewmen killed in the crash:

Flight Sergeant John Erskine Brown MacLean 434641 RAAF

Flying Officer Kenneth Alan Cook 418227 RAAF

Flight Sergeant Maurice James McNamara 429719 RAAF

Flight Sergeant Bruce Cowper MacKnight 428879 RAAF

Sergeant Howard Taylor 3011426 RAF

Flight Sergeant Robert Watt 1579768 RAF

Flight Sergeant Michael John Kerrigan 434528 RAAF survived and became a Prisoner of War but died on the 22nd of March 1945 in Leipzig, Germany from complications following amputation of his leg

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