Service Details
Name:
 BROWN
Given Name:
 MALCOLM PENVIL
Initials:
 M P
Service No:
 778810
Trade:
 Nav.
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 429 (R.C.A.F.) Sqdn
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Date of Death:
 1943-04-27
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Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Wellington HE382, target Duisburg, Germany, shot down over Holland during an air raid on Duisburg, Germany and crashed at Entersestraat, just west of Bornerbroek, Overijssel, Netherlands. Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant August Geiger of the 7/NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Twente airfield
Additional
Information:
Son of John Martin Brown and Gladys Brown, of Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia.
Commemoration
Country:
 Netherlands
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Cemetery:
 BORNE (BORNERBROEK) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD
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Grave Reference:
 Coll. grave 4-6.

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