LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Maxwell IRVINE-BROWN
Service No: 404736
Born: Brisbane QLD, 15 December 1913
Enlisted in the RAAF: 8 November 1940
Unit: No. 453 Squadron
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 453 Squadron Brewster Buffalo aircraft W8208), Pulau Buntang, 8 October 1941, Aged 27 Years
Buried: Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore
CWGC Additional Information: no additional information
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 105, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 8 October 1941, Pilot Officer Irvine-Brown flying Buffalo W8208 on a radio trail became lost and was killed when he crash-landed on Pulau Buntang, 70 kms south east of Singapore.
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 A9300, IRVINE-BROWN M
Bibliography:
Ilbery, P.L.T. (Peter Leslie Thomas) (422957) Hatching an Air Force: 2SFTS, 5SFTS, 1BFTS Uranquinty and Wagga Wagga, Banner Books Maryborough QLD 4650, 2002