Date of birth:

(Rawmarsh/South Yorkshire, Great Britain)

Service number:

179805

Nationality:

British (1801-present, Kingdom)

Charlie Brameld graduated from St. John's College in York and volunteered for observer aircrew in March 1941. Together with other classmates he sailed for the USA to go through the Arnold (flying training) Scheme.
Back in the UK he was posted to 142 Squadron on Wellingstons at Waltham, Lincolnshire. Following a first tour of thirty-two operational trips, Brameld became an instructor in OTU for nine months. Brameld's second tour with the Pathfinder forces began at RAF Warboys, where he learned OBOE, a radar-controlled bombing device. Subsequently he was posted to 109 Squadron on Mosquito aircraft. Duties here included dropping colored markers to guide four-engine bombers on day and night raids. Brameld had flown thirty-two sorties on Wellingstons; now with 109 Squadron, he flew eighty-five additional sorties.
Brameld was demobilized on February 6th, 1946, and continued service as a teacher and headmaster for thirty-six years.

Promotions:
July 18th, 1944: Pilot Officer (probation/emergency)
January 18th, 1945: Flying Officer (confirme in appointment/war sub)

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Sergeant

Unit:

Royal Ir Force Volunteer Reserve

Awarded on:

January 14th, 1944

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Pilot Officer

Unit:

No. 109 Squadron, Royal Air Force

Awarded on:

March 27th, 1945

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Acting Flight Lieutenant

Unit:

No. 109 Squadron, Royal Air Force

Awarded on:

July 17th, 1945

Second DFC awarded as a bar for on the ribbon of the first DFC.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Acting Flight Lieutenant

Unit:

No. 109 Squadron, Royal Air Force

Awarded on:

October 26th, 1945

Citation:
"This officer has a long and distinguished record of operational flying. He has completed three tours of operational duty, and since the award of a Bar to the D.F.C. he has participated in attacks against some of the heaviest defended targets in Germany. A navigator of outstanding ability, F/O Brameld has never let either intense anti-aircraft fire or adverse weather deflect him from accomplishing his alloted attacks in a cool and efficient manner."


Third DFC awarded as second bar for on the ribbon of the first DFC.

• - Third Supplement to The London Gazette Issue 36329 published on the 11 January 1944
  - Third Supplement to The London Gazette Issue 37001 published on the 23 March 1945
  - Fifth Supplement to The London Gazette Issue 37182 published on the 13 July 1945
  - Fourth Supplement to The London Gazette Issue 37324 published on the 23 October 1945
  - FlightGlobal
  - Guinn, G. - The Arnold Scheme: British Pilots, the American South and the Allies Daring