Photo: B. Chandler
E.L. Brown
Royal Australian Force
25th March 1943 age 24
Eric
Loved son of G. and M. Brown
Of Leongatha, Victoria
At rest.
Acknowledgments: S.C. Knox.
Simon Glancey has provided the following:
Eric Lindsay Brown was a crew member of Spitfire IIb P8587 which, on the 25th March 1943, took off from RAF Eshott, on a non-operational day training flight, It crashed into hills at 1030 hours, at Dunstable, Wooler, Kirknewton, while flying in cloud, and the Pilot was killed.
Bellyside Hill
Plane: Supermarine Spitfire P8587
Crashed: 25/3/1943
The plane crashed in low cloud and after impact broke up and caught fire. The pilot F/Sgt Eric Lindsay Brown, Royal Australian Air Force, aged 24, was killed. He was in the middle of a flying course with 57 Operational Training Unit at RAF Eshott, south of Alnwick. The exact site of the crash was re-discovered by Chris Davies in July 2010 and now a small cairn marks the spot.
(Source: http://college-valley.co.uk/history.htm)
Northumberland Aviation Diary: Aviation Incidents from 1790-1999 ; Derek Walton; Norav Publications; 1999; ISBN 0 9536189 0 0
"In This Quiet Lane" Chevington and Broomhill in World War Two ; J.H. Hardy; 200; Glen Graphics; ISBN 1 900038 75 7
Eric Lindsay Brown is remembered in Chevington on C27.03 which bears no names but a list was printed in the Unveiling Programme.
