Service Details
Name:
 BRANDON
Given Name:
 ARTHUR FRANK
Initials:
 A F
Rank:
 Flight Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Naval Air Service
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Unit:
 Manston NAS
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Date of Death:
 1917-10-26
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Date of Birth:
 1893-11-27
Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Sopwith Pup tractor biplane scout, collision and crashed, in UK
Decorations:
 D S C
Citations:
 EG Sup 5 November 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."
Additional
Information:
Son of Charles Brandon and Mrs. D. R. Conradie, of Montreal, Harrismith, South Africa. Credited with bringing down a Gotha at Vincent Farm, Manstone 22 August 1917. His cousin also died in service. On Harrismith War Memorial, Free State. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Kent
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Cemetery:
 MINSTER (THANET) CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 1113

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