Pilot Officer Hugh Card Brown was born on 22 October 1919 in Cardston, Alberta, Canada, the eldest son and fifth of the seven children of Hugh Brown Brown (1885-1973) and Zina Young Brown née Card (1888-1974). The 1921 Census of Canada shows him living in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, with his parents and four sisters: Zina Lydia Brown (1909-1997), Zola Grace Brown (1911-2005), LaJune Brown (1914-1996) and Mary Myrtice Brown (1916-2011).
According to T, he was baptised on 28 January 1928.
The United States Federal Census of 1930 states that he was living in Stratford Avenue, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA, with his parents, his four elder sisters, his brother Charles Manley Brown (1921-2009) and his sister Margaret Alberta Brown (1927-2005). By the time of the 1940 census the family had moved to Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA.
shows that he joined the , service number 103467, in 1940 in Canada and after training was assigned as a Pilot Officer to in December 1941.
He died, aged 22 years, when flying a Supermarine Spitfire Mk Va, Serial Number X4353, he failed to return from an operational flight off the coast of Lincolnshire on 16 March 1942. As he has no known grave he is commemorated on , Cooper's Hill Lane, Englefield Green, Egham, Surrey TW20 0LB, on a , Salt Lake, Utah, on the , and on Page 609 of the .
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
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