Sydney Brown

Sydney MacGillvary Brown (10 August 1895 – 7 April 1952) was an American World War I flying ace, who later became an author and professor of medieval history.

Biography Brown was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he was member of Phi Beta Kappa society. He graduated in 1916, delivering an address at the commencement ceremony.

World War I Brown joined the Royal Flying Corps in July 1917, and was appointed a temporary second lieutenant (on probation) on 12 January 1918.

Later career Brown returned to his academic career after the war, attending Oxford University. where he taught for the next twenty years.

During World War II Brown served in the United States Navy Reserve as an aerial navigation officer in Britain and Italy, with the rank of lieutenant-commander.

In 1947 he was appointed an associate professor of medieval history at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. He died on 7 April 1952 at the Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh.

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