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
PoW Camp(s)
-
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.
Photographed by the McEneaney family.
Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses
