Can anybody tell me anything about this pilot please ? ... this is all I have ! Gilpin-Brown, Robert - Lived on Sullivan Street Port Hope Flew Sopwith Camels with 46 RFC Squadron led by Don MacLaren, Canada's third-ranking ace with 54 victories. Bob was tall and slim and looked the picture of health in 1980. His wife, Athol, had heart problems, yet Bob was the first to die. F5950 Sopwith Camel 46 Squadron 2Lt RD Gilpin-Brown
Annie I don't have much else on the man, but a little more on F5950, his aeroplane. The Australian Maj A H O'Hara-Wood was credited with a shared victory over a DFW two-seater while flying it on 1 August 1918. It was badly shot about in the action in which 2Lt Gilpin-Brown was credited with a victory on 17 September, and he had to return home at 50 feet. On 1 October F5950 spun into the ground and burnt out after take off, 2Lt Herbert Clarke was killed. Gareth
Former Flight Cadet R D Gilpin-Brown was given a temporary commission as a Second Lieutenant (flying officer) in the RAF on 22 July 1918. If he previously served in the RFC, it must have been as an NCO. Gareth
