LEST WE FORGET
Leading Aircraftman Keith Lawrence BROWN
Service No: 19158
Born: Melbourne VIC, 19 February 1914
Enlisted in the RAAF: 16 October 1940
Unit: No. 2 Mobile Works Squadron, Lae PNG
Died: Illness, Yalu PNG, 14 January 1944, Aged 29 Years
Buried: Lae War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Lawrence Croom Brown and Ida Isobel Brown; husband of Elsie Isabel Brown, of Murrayville, Victoria
Roll of Honour: Murrayville VIC
Remembered: Panel 114, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 4 January 1944, Leading Aircraftman Brown, a Fitter General, was admitted to III Casualty
Clearing Station, Yalu, suffering from scrub typhus and he died on 14 January 1944.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/6/385