Frederick Elliott Brown

Name:

Country:

Canada

Rank:

Captain

Service:

Royal Flying Corps
Royal Air Force

Units:

2, 84

Victories:

Born:

03 February 1895

Place of Birth:

Quebec City, Quebec

Died:

15 September 1971

Place of Death:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Frederick Elliott Brown was a medical student at Laval University in Quebec. He was a Lieutenant in the 8th Canadian Infantry Battalion and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers on the Western Front from March to July 1916. After his transfer to the Royal Flying Corps on 4 January 1917, he scored 10 victories flying the S.E.5a with 84 Squadron. Brown was an instructor in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.

Listed as Frederic Elliott Brown in the London Gazette.

Military Cross (MC)

Lt. Frederic Elliott Brown, R. Dub. Fus., Spec. Res., and R.F.C.
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Whilst leading a patrol of five machines, on observing four hostile scouts -diving on one of our formations, he at once engaged them, driving one of them down completely out of control, while his formation dispersed the others. Later, on sighting another hostile scout, he engaged it and forced it down spinning and out of control. While returning to his aerodrome, he observed an enemy two-seater, and, though his engine was running badly and might have failed him any moment, he attacked it and drove it down in a vertical nose dive. Previously to this he had driven down one other machine, which was seen to crash, and a third completely out of control. He is a most daring and skilful pilot.

Supplement to the London Gazette, 22 April 1918 (30643/4824)

Military Cross (MC) Bar

Lt. (T./Capt.) Frederic Elliott Brown, M.C., R. Dub. Fus., Spec. Res., and R.F.C.
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in attacking enemy aircraft. During an engagement between fourteen of our scouts and about forty enemy scouts, he shot down two enemy machines completely out of control. On another occasion, he attacked a formation of seven enemy scouts and destroyed one of them. He has destroyed two other enemy machines and driven down one other out of control. His courage and initiative have been a source of inspiration to all.

Supplement to the London Gazette, 22 June 1918 (30761/7397)

Victories

	Date	Time	Unit	Aircraft	Opponent	Location
1	08 Nov 1917	1415	84	S.E.5a (B513)	Albatros D.V (OOC) ¹	E of Poelcapelle
2	16 Feb 1918	1020	84	S.E.5a (C5364)	Albatros D.V (OOC)	St. Quentin
3	16 Feb 1918	1045	84	S.E.5a (C5364)	Albatros D.V (OOC)	St. Quentin
4	16 Feb 1918	1100	84	S.E.5a (C5364)	C (DES)	N of La Fère
5	11 Mar 1918	1040	84	S.E.5a (C5364)	Albatros D.V (DES) ²	Lavergies
6	13 Mar 1918	1210	84	S.E.5a (B8337)	Albatros D.V (DES)	Homblieres
7	17 Mar 1918	1140	84	S.E.5a (B8337)	Albatros D.V (OOC)	Bussigny
8	17 Mar 1918	1145	84	S.E.5a (B8337)	Albatros D.V (OOC)	W of Bussigny
9	18 Mar 1918	1140	84	S.E.5a (B8337)	Albatros D.V (OOC)	SE of Sequehart
10	22 Mar 1918	1145	84	S.E.5a (B8337)	Pfalz D.III (DES)	Fayet

1	Shared with Capt James Child
2	Shared with Lt George Johnson

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