Detail victim

Name BRODIE
Initials CG
First name CHARLES GORDON
Place of birth Hornsey
Country Middlesex, England
Family Son of Charles Tomlison and Anna Maria, 108 Fordwych Road, West Hampstead, London;
Education Lancing College

Place & date of enlistment 28 January 1915
Rank Lieutenant
Regiment and unit 6th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
Attached or transferred from 1/5 Bn. - London Regiment
Other data related to military career to France July 1915; on the 21st of August 1916 he was sent for flight training at No.1 School of Military Aeronautics and was posted to 26 Reserve Squadron and 18 Reserve Squadron.
On the 26th of October 1916 he was appointed as a Flying Officer and seconded for service to the Royal Flying Corps before being joining 6 Squadron at the front on the 1st of November 1916 as an Observer.
Promoted to Acting Lieutenant on the 1st of February 1917, a rank which was confirmed on 11th of March 1917 and was antedated to the 1st of June 1916.

Wounded Artillery patrol, air collision of the RE8 A4198 with A4594 , at 6000 feet; Brodie was the pilot, Lt. Alexander Ian McKimmie the observer, also killed and buried in Lijssenthoek; Captain Walter Llewellyn Clark and 2nd Lt. Harry Stanley Diment, observer, also crashed and died; they are buried in Lijssenthoek;
Type of wounds Killed in flying accident
Date of death 23 May 1917
Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery X - A - 35