Personnel Index - Detail

Name
ROWCROFT
First Names
Oscar Gladwin
Rank
Flight Lieutenant
Service
RAAF
Service Number
A401196
Crew Position
Navigator
Posting In
7/42
Posting Out
10/42
Cemetery

 

He came from Elwood, Victoria, Australia and was 23 years old.

Flew 17 operations with 49Sqn.

He was posted to 467Sqn and was killed on 25th February 1943 during a raid on Nürnburg.

F/L Rowcroft is buried in the Durnbach War Cemetery.

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Photographed by the McEneaney family.
 

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Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses
 

49Squadron Association