Personnel Index - Detail

Name
BOWDEN
First Names
Frederick Harold
Rank
Pilot Officer
Service
RAF
Service Number
748700
Crew Position
Pilot
Posting Out
5/41
Cemetery

 

Completed a tour of Hampden operations with 49Sqn between November 1940 and March 1941.

Awarded the DFC.
 

Squadron Leader Bowden DFC & Bar was killed on the 10th July 1943 whilst flying with 428 (RCAF) Squadron on an operation to Gelsenkirchen.

He is buried in the Rheinberg War Cemetery.

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Photographed by Dom Howard.
 

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Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses