AUSTRALIAN FARMER NEIGHBOURS COMMAND SQUADRONS - Two Australian airmen whose peacetime farms were only 20 miles apart have been promoted to command squadrons with only two weeks between their new appointments. Wing Commander William Lloyd Brill, DFC., of Grong Grong, Narranders, New South Wales, who has just been awarded the and Wing Commander Doubleday, DFC of Coolamon, New South Wales, lifelong friends and neighbours, joined the together in 1940 and all their promotions from to Acting Squadron Leader have coincided. Wing Commander Brill was given the command
AUSTRALIAN FARMER NEIGHBOURS COMMAND SQUADRONS - Two Australian airmen whose peacetime farms were only 20 miles apart have been promoted to command squadrons with only two weeks between their new appointments. Wing Commander William Lloyd Brill, DFC., of Grong Grong, Narranders, New South Wales, who has just been awarded the and Wing Commander Doubleday, DFC of Coolamon, New South Wales, lifelong friends and neighbours, joined the together in 1940 and all their promotions from to Acting Squadron Leader have coincided. Wing Commander Brill was given the command of an Australian Lancaster Squadron in Britain just a fortnight after Wing Commander Doubleday was appointed to command an Squadron - see Release dated 19th May 1944. Picture (issued 1944) shows - Portrait of WING COMMANDER BRILL, DFC of the , Royal Air Force
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