Brown, Reginald Wiseman (Squadron Leader)

7 Sqn (Per Diem Per Noctum), Pathfinder Force, RAF Oakington, Lancaster III aircraft ND 590 MG-B went down near Warhem, eight miles south-east of Dunkirk, during an operation against the V-1 flying bomb launch sites at Coubronne, France. Squadron Leader RW Brown DFC MiD (RAFVR)(Can), Flight Lieutenant WA Irwin DFC (RNZAF), Pilot Officer CA McCarthy (RAAF), FS E Cornish (RAF), FS R Nixon (RAFVR), FS JT Ward (RAFVR) and Flight Lieutenant CH Drewer (RAAF) were killed. Squadron Leader Brown had begun his second tour of operations when he was killed. He had previously served with 218 Squadron and had been awarded his DFC after returning from an operation to Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, in a heavily damaged 218 Sqn Stirling, evading attacks by flak and a night fighter April 25-26, 1942 (B Barry et al).