Ewart H Brown | ParaData

Ewart Brown was born in Nottingham in 1925 to Albert and Elizabeth Ann Brown (nee Sears).

He was enlisted into the General Service Corps on 11 March 1943 aged 17, with the desire to serve with the Royal Army Service Corps.

Corporal Brown served with 398 (Airborne) Composite Company RASC, part of the 6th Airborne Division from 1943-1947, and deployed on operations in North West Europe and Palestine.

He married Elizabeth Richardson in 1950 and they had two sons, born in 1951 and 1954. The family emigrated to Australia in 1957 although Ewart, his wife and youngest son returned to the UK in 1974.

Ewart Brown passed away aged 82 on 20 May 2008.

He was proud of his service with the airborne forces during World War II and so are his family.

1943
398 (Airborne) Composite Company RASC (Corporal)

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Advance to the Baltic

The airborne soldiers were well suited to exploit the fluid situation that occurred following the collapse of the Rhine barrier defence. Short fierce actions were fought from the tanks of the 4th Tank Battalion of the Grenadier Guards and whatever transport could be purloined.

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Ardennes

After the Allied landings in Normandy and subsequent advance through France and Belgium, the German Army had succeeded in stalling the Allied offensive along their line of defence at the German border - the ‘Siegfried Line’.

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Normandy (Operation Overlord)

Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of occupied Europe commonly known as D-Day, saw the 6th Airborne Division for the first time.

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Palestine

Arab intransigence over the surge of Jewish immigration that followed the Holocaust in Europe led to the forming of extreme dissident Zionist groups such as IZL (Irgun Zwai Leumi) and the Stern Gang, all seeking to promote their aims through violence.

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Rhine Crossing (Operation Varsity)

Operation Varsity was the largest single airborne operation in history. On a single day, over 16,000 men were inserted by glider and parachute into western Germany. Around 8000 of those came from the British 6th Airborne Division, flying aboard 243 C47 aircraft and 440 gliders.

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398 (Airborne) Composite Company RASC, date unknown.

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Christmas 1945

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Members of 398 (Airborne) Composite Company RASC, Tahag, Tel-al-Kebir Egypt 1945.

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Members of 398 (Airborne) Composite Company RASC, Holland, 1945.

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Members of 398 (Airborne) Composite Company RASC, date unknown

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Members of 398 (Airborne) Composite Company RASC, Jerusalem, Thursday 18 April 1946.

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Cpl E Brown driving a truck, Palestine.

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Cpl Brown on "Old faithfull", Palestine, date unknown.

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"Where we stayed during our tour. 17 April 1946"

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Pte Ewart Brown and one of his younger brothers, c 1943.

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Cpl Brown's Postcard to his mother, Sunday 16 December 1945

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Corporal Ewart H Brown

{ Harry or Bonk }

01 Nov 1925 - 20 May 2008

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