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Sergeant Peter Leighton Browne

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Sergeant Peter Leighton Browne Veteran

Birth
Cobden, Corangamite Shire, Victoria, Australia
Death
14 Oct 1941 (aged 20)
Friesenheim, Stadtkreis Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Burial
Gmund am Tegernsee, Landkreis Miesbach, Bavaria, Germany Add to Map
Plot
Coll. grave 5. A. 18-21.
Memorial ID
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Sergeant Royal Australian Air Force 400407
Posting on Death:115 Squadron (RAF) Marham Norfolk.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Wellington IC Z8844; Place - near Munich, Germany; Date - 14 October 1941
Shot Down By anti aircraft fire near Friesenheimer Insel just North of Ludwigshafen during a raid on Nuremberg.
The crew members of IC Z8844 were
BROWNE Peter Leighton – (Sergeant); Service Number – 400407
DEARDON F – (Sergeant); Service Number – 1110712/ RAF
JARRETT P – (Sergeant); Service Number – 923216/ RAF
PREECE M – (Sergeant); Service Number – 137153/ RAF
WIDDECOMBE B – (Sergeant); Service Number – 1260386/ RAF
STEWART F – (Sergeant); Service Number – 987915/ RAF
Remembrance
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in East Malvern Vic, also his name is located at panel 119 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Family & Connections
Son of Alan Leighton Browne and Eileen Rowena Browne, of East Malvern, Victoria, Australia.
Father Alan Leighton Browne (1888-1948)
Mother Ada Eileen Rowena Knapman (1896-1971)
Father: Alan Leighton Browne Trooper 10 A.L.H. 1st A.I.F.
Nephew of Major Browne ex 28 Btn 1st A.I.F
Nephew of Major D.D. Browne A.A.M.C. 1st & 2nd A.I.F. & Flt Lt F.E. Browne , East Malvern.
Sergeant Royal Australian Air Force 400407
Posting on Death:115 Squadron (RAF) Marham Norfolk.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Wellington IC Z8844; Place - near Munich, Germany; Date - 14 October 1941
Shot Down By anti aircraft fire near Friesenheimer Insel just North of Ludwigshafen during a raid on Nuremberg.
The crew members of IC Z8844 were
BROWNE Peter Leighton – (Sergeant); Service Number – 400407
DEARDON F – (Sergeant); Service Number – 1110712/ RAF
JARRETT P – (Sergeant); Service Number – 923216/ RAF
PREECE M – (Sergeant); Service Number – 137153/ RAF
WIDDECOMBE B – (Sergeant); Service Number – 1260386/ RAF
STEWART F – (Sergeant); Service Number – 987915/ RAF
Remembrance
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in East Malvern Vic, also his name is located at panel 119 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Family & Connections
Son of Alan Leighton Browne and Eileen Rowena Browne, of East Malvern, Victoria, Australia.
Father Alan Leighton Browne (1888-1948)
Mother Ada Eileen Rowena Knapman (1896-1971)
Father: Alan Leighton Browne Trooper 10 A.L.H. 1st A.I.F.
Nephew of Major Browne ex 28 Btn 1st A.I.F
Nephew of Major D.D. Browne A.A.M.C. 1st & 2nd A.I.F. & Flt Lt F.E. Browne , East Malvern.

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ALL YOU HAD,
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