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F/Lt. Ralph Osborne Brown
Royal New Zealand Air Force 129 Squadron
from:Oamaru, New Zealand
Fl/Lt. Ralph Brown, enlisted on the 2nd May 1942 as a pilot with the RNZAF and trained in Canada and United Kingdom.
He served from the the 31st of October 1942 until the 21st December 1945 on operations. Released at the end of hostilities on the 9th March 1946. Commissioned into general reserve on the 6th October 1950 until he retired on the 9th September 1974.
He was awarded the 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45 and the New Zealand War Service Medal.
Formerly of Dayman Way The Wood and Maori Hill Dunedin at Ernest Rutherford Retirement Village. Loved husband of the late Jean (67 years). Loved father and father-in-law of Derek (deceased), Gered and the late Ray (Wellington), Delwyn (Sydney), and grandfather of Nathaniel and Georgia, Sam and Di; Katie and Yanos, Jemima and Sam, and Jacqueline Bartlett. Great-grandfather of Zoe, Ada, Mia, Arlo, Luca, and Odette.