BRAHY, Christian

Stats:

rank: F/Sgt
status: survived
airforce: RAF    (no: 1398074 )
born: 1923-03-09 La Louvière Belgium

added by: Adrian Dwyer

'Sunshine' Brahy flew with 349 Squadron (12/06/1943 - 23/02/1944), 18 Armament Practice Camp (23/02/1944 - 17/10/1944), 84 GSU(06/11/1944 - 19/11/1944), 349 Sqn (20/11/1944 - 20/12/1944), 83 GSU (21/12/1944 - 09/01/1945) and joined 350 Sqn (BE) on January 10th, serving until War's end.
After the WW2 passed to the Air Force Reserve and left Belgium to start a personal venture inColumbia in the 1950's : "Porcelena Industrial Brahy Ltd at Medelin. Died at Medellin, Colombia, 3rd January 2011.
(Source : Guy De Win)

Knight of the Order of the Crown, 1939 - 1945 Star, France and Germany Star,
Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 with Palm

His claims in combat are :
21/02/1945 1 Me-109 Damaged Paderborn (350Sqn)
'Executing an Armed Patrol in the region Rheine - Munster - Paderborn, a formation of 9 Spitfires encounter 20 Me-109 which resulted in a heavy combat in which J. Lavigne, A. Van Wersch and "Boam" Lambrechts claims each one destroyed with "Boam" adding a damaged to his Tally, and C. Brahy also damaging a Me-109.'