Personnel Index - Detail
Name
BOWES-CAVANAGH
First Names
Brian Derek
Rank
Pilot Officer
Service
RAF
Service Number
89371
Crew Position
Pilot
Posting In
Posted in 3/41 and out 6/41
Age
21
Cemetery
Location
A collective grave of CWGC headstones within a civilian cemetery.
Flew 6 Hampden operations as Navigator with 49Sqn.
P/O Bowes-Cavanagh was killed in action on the 13th October 1941 whilst flying with 207Sqn on a raid to Hüls in another ill-fated Manchester.
He is buried in the Essen (Horendonk) Communal Cemetery, Belgium.
Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses