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Identity
Person No.
2491
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Arthur Frank
Initials
A F
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
Unknown
Cause of Death
Killed flying Sopwith Pup tractor biplane scout in UK, in collision and crashed
Military Service
Rank
Flight Lieutenant
Defence Force
UK 4,066
British forces
Notes

Son of Charles Brandon and Mrs. D. R. Conradie, of Montreal, Harrismith, South Africa. On Harrismith War Memorial, Free State. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918. Credited with bringing down a Gotha at Vincent Farm, Manstone 22 August 1917. His cousin also died in service

Citations

Edinburgh Gazette 5 Nov 1917 pg 2292 - "For services on the 22nd August, 1917, when he attacked single-handed an enemy formation returning from a raid on England and brought down one of them in flames. As his aeroplane had been hit several times, he landed to change machines, and proceeded to attack again with a new one, making repeated attacks on individual machines, and pursuing the enemy formation, over the North Sea to the Belgian coast, where he made a final attack."

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