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Re: 53 Sqn Liberator BZ873 21 May 1944
Hello,
20/21 May 1944
No.53 Sqn
Liberator GR.V (L.L.) BZ873 'S'
Anti U-boat Patrol - Inner Bay Area.
T/o St Eval 2056. When not far from the mouth of the Gironde a/c sent a flash report at 0120, the report was then cancelled. Nothing further was heard from the a/c and it Failed to Return.
149526 F/O (Capt./Pilot) Geoffrey Alan BOWMAN RAFVR - Missing
AUS8934 F/S (2nd Pilot) Jack Kenneth RICHARDS RAAF - Missing
1483509 F/S (1st.Nav.) Robert Dougall CHRISTIE RAFVR - Missing
AUS423171 F/S (2nd.Nav.) Walter William MOORE RAAF - Missing
AUS420313 F/S (W.Op./AG.) Herbert William WATKINS RAAF - Missing
1116256 F/S (W.Op./AG.) George HARRISON RAFVR - Buried Bilbao British Cemetery, Spain
AUS425024 F/S (W.Op./AG.) John Thomas KERR RAAF - Missing
AUS425311 F/S (W.Op./AG.) Alan Francis JOHNSON RAAF - Missing
528618 W/O (W.Op./AG) Frederick William ATHERTON RAF - Missing
53450 F/O (Flt.Eng.) William McTAGGART DFM RAF - Missing
Missing airmen are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
Are you aware that Geoffrey Alexander Bowman lost an older brother? Sgt Eric Ritchie Bowman's 26 Conversion Flight Stirling I N6066 flew into trees near Kempton, SW of Bedford, on 24 December 1941 (BCL8/13).
Col.
Last edited by Col Bruggy; 9th October 2018 at 17:19.
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