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Flight Sergeant Peter Brown was 96 when he died alone in Maida Vale, west London, last December.

A surge in requests to attend the Flight Sergeant’s ceremony came after a hugely successful campaign to find his family

The service for Flight Sergeant Peter Brown will now take place at St Clement Danes, the RAF Central Church, in Westminster so more people can attend.

Mr Brown died at his Maida Vale home, aged 96, in December and there has been an extensive appeal to trace his relatives

Appeal to find Flight Sergeant Peter Brown’s relatives was so successful that the memorial service had to be moved to a larger venue

The venue for the funeral of one of the RAF's last black World War II veterans has been moved by organisers after they were inundated with attendance requests by members of the public who were touched by his story.

UK government leaders appealed Wednesday for relatives of one of the country's last black veterans of World War II to come forward after he died alone and

Organisers were inundated with requests to attend the service for Sergeant Peter Brown died aged 96 in Maida Vale, west London, in December last year.

Sgt Peter Brown was one of the last 'pilots of the carribbean' who served in the RAF during the war.

People in England who knew Flight Sergeant Peter Brown have one wish — that the Jamaican be given a funeral befitting his importance as one of the last, and possibly last, West Indian members of t...