St. Luke's
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1914-18
1939-45
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E. W. Browne Edmund William Browne was born and raised at Wayland in Norfolk. In 1944 he married Audrey Eleanor Isobel Carr of 4 Sefton Road, Formby. He served in the RAF with 61 Squadron and was one of the 7-man crew who were all killed on 16th March 1945 when their Lancaster (serial number RF176) was shot down by night fighters during a mission to bomb the town of Wurzburg. He was 23 and left a widow and a daughter born a few months after he was killed. He is buried in Durnbach War Cemetery, Bayern, Germany, where his gravestone bears the words “Jesus called a little child to Him”. See http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2079897/BROWNE, EDMUND WILLIAM Also http://www.aircrewremembered.com/grynkiewicz-henryk-boleslaw.html
A special thanks to Ian Cameron for this information. |