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Brown was born to upper-middle class parents in Carleton Place, outside of Ottawa, one of five children.
Brown had become ill at this point, and thus missed the massacre that ensued when the latest German Albatros D.III fighters appeared for the first time and butchered the Allied air forces.
On 6 October 1917 Brown was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) in recognition of his aerial success and in particular for coming to the aid of a lone Allied pilot under fire from four German Albatrosses.