Flight Sergeant Reginald Stanley BRANDON
459 RAAF Squadron

Service No: 403416

Date of Birth: 22 Feb 1914

Place of Birth: Hill End, NSW

Date of Enlistment: 06 Jan 1941

Date of Discharge: 28 Jun 1945

Rank: Flight Sergeant

Date of Death: 13 Aug 1942 Alamein Col 265

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A dairy farmer from Byron Bay, Brandon enlisted on 6 January 1941 and embarked for training in Canada in April that year. Whilst serving as a Flight Sergeant (Flt Sgt) with No. 459 Squadron he was killed during operations on 13 August 1942 in the Middle East. The Hudson FH 294 aircraft in which he was flying failed to return from a dawn strike at Salum (Sollum) Bay, Egypt. Also killed were 404472 Flt Sergeant Walter Richard Samuel Cornish; 402410 Flt Sgt William Norris Smith and 402618 Flt Sergeant William Edmund Somerville.

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​Please see 459 book "Desert Scorpions" pages 134,152 and 494 regarding F/Sgt Brandon final shipping strike mission.

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Below is the Australian National Archives record

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=1055103