Ashleigh Brown

Ashleigh Brown is an historian on the Official History Project at the Australian War Memorial, where she is part of a team writing the Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq & Afghanistan and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor.

Ashleigh holds a Master of Philosophy, and is a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, researching Australian military aviation during the interwar period. Her thesis investigates the formation of the Royal Australian Air Force in 1921, its initial developments and challenges, and the period of rapid modernisation leading up to the Second World War.