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Sadly Jim Brown left us on Sept 28th, 2011 after a short
illness in his 88th year. Jim the son of an Aberdeenshire Farmer trained as
an RAF Pilot during WWII in North America
after demonstrating his skills in a Tiger Moth. His Primary flight training
was in Detroit flying the Boeing-Stearman,
Basic Training in St Louis flying Vultee BT-13
Valiants, and Conversion training in Pensacola on PBY
Catalina's in preparation for active service in the Atlantic. After
finishing at Pensacola Jim's training took him to Canada's
PEI to
develop navigation skills including ship spotting in the Avro Anson. The War
finished just as Jim completed his flight training. On returning to the UK after the War ended where all pilots were
essentially grounded Jim retrained as an Air traffic controller and was
posted to West Africa. On returning to Scotland Jim had a career with the Royal Bank
of Scotland living in
Kirriemuir, Dundee and Newport in Fife. He was married to Bessie for just a week short of
54 years and the proud father to his two children Wendy and Peter born in
Kirriemuir, and a Grandfather to Jamie and Lucy who now live in Canada. Jim's
photograph below was taken in 1945 in PEI.
Jim was a most valuable and very involved member of the community, over
more than 40 years residence in Newport.
Jim took great pride in his keeping good relations with all he came in
contact with, throughout his long and healthy life. He has been a great
model character and was well known for his continual interest in Leuchars
and flying from being a Flying Officer in the 2nd world war. Jim
was loved and respected by all who knew him and will be sadly missed, but
never forgotten.
Jim will be laid to rest on Thursday 6th October 2011 at 2:45pm in the Vicarsford
Cemetery, Fife, Scotland, [MAP]
that lies between Newport and St Andrews just off the approach to RAF Leuchars Airbase Runway
09.
James Brown, My farther in-Law who always enjoyed flying with me.
robertpask@compuserve.com
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