Needed more info. about Lancaster pilot KIA:5/11/44

[KrisJG3]

Dears ,
I would like to find more details about one pilot.

Here some details:

Eric Bowring - Flight sgt navigator (16224224) He was part of squadron 166 , Lancaster bomber (the Avro Lancaster, which it flew until the end of the war) - Killed in action 5/11/44 , it was his 20th mission.

Please sent to me if you know more details or if you have documents, burial list, his crew members, aircraft pictures , etc. ...

Bowring, Flt. Sgt. Eric Navigator - Lancaster Mk I , AS-T , ME835

Source:
http://home.cogeco.ca/~dswallow4/GraveLocationB.htm

My contact:
Huball25@poczta.fm

Thanks in advance.

PS:
Could be in documents with another familly name:

"... BOWLING Eric probably Eric BOWRING, Flight Sergeant 162242, 166 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died 5th November 1944. Commemorated on RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL, Surrey. Panel 215...."
Source:
http://www.thornham-norfolk.co.uk/war.htm

Squadron 166:
http://www.historyofwar.org/air/units/RAF/166_wwII.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._166_Squadron_RAF
http://home.cogeco.ca/~dswallow4/GraveLocationB.htm

Some pictures from previous mission ME835:
Shown here is Lancaster B.Mk.I, AS-T, (ME835) of No.166 Sqd over Le Havre, 10th September, 1944
http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/alb...er-b-mk-i.html

BR
Kris

[karl lusink]

Originally Posted by KrisJG3

Dears ,
I would like to find more details about one pilot.

Here some details:

Eric Bowring - Flight sgt navigator (16224224) He was part of squadron 166 , Lancaster bomber (the Avro Lancaster, which it flew until the end of the war) - Killed in action 5/11/44 , it was his 20th mission.

Please sent to me if you know more details or if you have documents, burial list, his crew members, aircraft pictures , etc. ...
What was his aircraft serial number and Lancaster version ?

My contact:
Huball25@poczta.fm

Thanks in advance.

PS:
Could be in documents with another familly name:

"... BOWLING Eric probably Eric BOWRING, Flight Sergeant 162242, 166 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died 5th November 1944. Commemorated on RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL, Surrey. Panel 215...."
Source:
http://www.thornham-norfolk.co.uk/war.htm

Squadron 166:
http://www.historyofwar.org/air/units/RAF/166_wwII.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._166_Squadron_RAF

BR
Kris

Hello,
Lancaster Mk I ME-835 AS-T Lost:4/5-11-1944
166 Squadron RAF T/O Kirmington: 17:25 h Op: Bochum
Crew of 7. Lost without trace. All are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
F/O J.R. WILSON Pilot
Sgt J.A. FENTON
F/S N.R. BOOTH
F/S K.F. BULL
F/S E. BOWRING
Sgt J.H. CROOKS
Sgt D. CHAPMAN

Source: BC Losses 1944 . Chorley page 475

Regards
Karl Lusink

[KrisJG3]

Thanks Karl !!!
I will inform his familly.

Here pictures for You:
http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/alb...er-b-mk-i.html


There is also here:

Date/Serial No/Type/Service History/Classification/Raid//Target/Tasking/SOC/Crash Site

05 November 1944 ME835 Lancaster A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd.,
del'd 23-5-44, 576 Sqn del'd 7-6-44
UL-?, 166 Sqn del'd 8-6-44 AS-T, SOC 17-11-44
FTR Night Bochum Unknown

Source: http://www.lancaster-archive.com/lan...crashsites.pdf