Peter Brown Junior was educated in Chilliwack and enjoyed golf and badminton. He worked for B.C. Electric for 12 years in the capacity of clerk, meter reader and collector. In March 1941, he enlisted in the R.C.A.F. and was trained at a bombing and gunnery school at Mossbank, Saskatchewan. Peter went overseas as a wireless air gunner in February 1942. He joined 458 Squadron, a Royal Australian Air Force unit, and it was with this unit that he was killed. On February 13, 1943 the Wellington bomber in which he was flying overshot their landing, on Malta, because of engine trouble. The aircraft crashed and caught fire in a quarry close to Luqa aerodrome.

Flight Sergeant Peter Edwin Elkford Brown
Passed away February 13, 1943
458 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
Service Number R/92308
Malta (Capuccini) Naval Cemetery, Malta

Age 32

Submitted by nephew Doug Reynolds