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Capt Roy Arthur “Brownie” Brown, World War I recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross and bar. Officially credited by the Royal Air Force with shooting down Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron". Brown enlisted as an Officer Cadet at the Army Officers' Training and graduated from the Royal Naval Air Service for pilot training in 1915. Soon after, he sailed to England as a flight sub-lieutenant and underwent further training at Chingford. Thought to have been unharmed when Brown crashed his Avro 504 on May 2, 1916, the next morning he experienced severe back pain, as he had actually broken a vertebra. After spending two months recuperating in hospital, he was posted to Eastchurch Gunnery School in September 1916 and then sent to Cranwell to complete advanced training in January 1917. Brown was then posted to No. 9 Naval Squadron in March, where he flew coastal patrols off the Belgian coast. In June 1917, Brown was posted for a short time to No. 11 Naval Squadron. Brown acquired his first kill while flying on July 17, 1917. Following his promotion to flight lieutenant, he gathered another three unconfirmed kills. Brown was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross on October 6, 1917. Brown was then made flight commander. Posted to the Somme in early 1918, operations increased and Brown's condition deteriorated. But he refused to quit flying and shot down two more aircraft on April 11th and 12th. While on patrol on April 21st, Brown's squadron became engaged in combat with fighters led by Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron". In an attempt to aid his friend, Lt. Wop May, Brown attacked Manfred von Richthofen. Brown was officially credited with the kill by the Royal Air Force soon after receiving a Bar to his Distinguished Service Cross. As an air unit commander during the First World War, Captain Arthur Roy Brown never lost a pilot in his flight during combat.

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Find A Grave: Capt Roy Arthur “Brownie” Brown, photo added by Lorna McMahon, retrieved 18 May 2018.

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