Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
P/O Brown was killed when Avro Lancaster III ED799 WS-G of 9 Squadron was lost without trace on a minelaying mission to the Bay of Biscay, with the loss of all seven crew members.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943;W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3, page 122
Also killed in the same incident were P/Off. R. Brown and F/Off. B. Carey
