Studio portrait of 421958 Aircraftman, later Pilot Officer (PO) Joseph Henry Brown, 20 Squadron, ...

Accession Number P08946.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Maker Unknown
Date made 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of 421958 Aircraftman, later Pilot Officer (PO) Joseph Henry Brown, 20 Squadron, RAAF, of Wollongong, NSW. He enlisted from Sydney on 24 April 1942. PO Brown was killed on operations piloting a Catalina A24-204 over Laoet Straits, Timor on 28 January 1945, aged 23. His name is commemorated on the Ambon Memorial, Indonesia.

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