Personnel Index - Detail
Name
PROWSE
First Names
D C
Rank
Warrant Officer I
Service
RCAF
Service Number
R121579
Crew Position
Navigator
Posting In
Posted in 8/43 and out 1/44
Flew 11 operations with 49Sqn.
W/O Prowse joined 83Sqn and became a PoW on 27th April 1944 during a raid on Schweinfurt.
WO Prowse was seriously injured during his escape and lost his right leg.
Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses
He returned at the end of the war to Law School in Canada eventually becoming a Judge at the Court of Appeal.
"Posted out" in 1988.