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Lt. William Alfred Brown
Royal Flying Corps 38 Squadron
from:Newcastle-upon-Tyne
William Brown was born on the 4th of December 1899 in Newcastle upon Tyne and was educated at Ushaw College. He joined the Northumberland Fusiliers and was wounded in action on the Somme on the 1st July 1916 whilst serving in the Tyneside Irish. He subsequently joined the RFC and was posted to 38 (Home Defence) Squadron. Lt.Brown and his 38 Squadron colleague, Lt CH Noble-Campbell, followed a similar path into the night sky over Coventry on the night of 12th/13th April 1918 whilst tracking the German airship L62. They failed to intercept the Zeppelin and both crash-landed within a few hundred yards of each other in Coventry.

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