Evelyn George William Bowers
Knud Riis
14 OCT 2021
Airman: a085001.htm Surname: Bowers Init: EGW
Rank: F/Lt Service:RAF Sqdn:630
P_link: p353.htm Plane: LAN ME650 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Near Skarrild
Crash_d: d270844 Buried_d: b111111 C_link: c085.htm At_Next: Skarrild
"I forbindelse med RAF´s første
bombeangreb på Königsberg
(nu Kaliningrad)
i Østpreussen nedstyrtede
Lancaster ME650
den 27.
august 1944 ved Clasonsborg i
Skarrild sogn. Hele besætningen blev dræbt". (FAF).
Nedstyrtningsstedet er
her
lige øst for Sdr. Grenevej 4, 6933 Kibæk omkring 1 km sydvest for
Clasonsborg, nu
Skarrildhus (her). (Kilde:
Knud Erik Green via
Skarrild-Karstoft
Museum)
Se også
Google Map 57 + 630 Squadron.
Flyverne er begravet på Skarrild Kirkegård.
Se Flyvergraven og mere på
www.skarrild.dk og se en propel fra en anden
Lancaster.
Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) Evelyn George William Bowers, 22 år, var søn af
Thomas og Catharine Bowers, Malvern Link, Worcestershire, United Kingdom.
(Kilde:
CWGC)
7 flyvere.
"In connection with RAF´s first bombing
raid to Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) in East Prussia
Lancaster ME650
crashed on 27 August 1944 at
Clasonsborg in the parish of Skarrild. All of the crew perished." (FAF).
The crash site is
here
just east of Sdr. Grenevej 4, 6933 Kibæk about 1 km south west of Clasonsborg,
now
Skarrildhus (here).
(Source: Knud Erik Green via
Skarrild-Karstoft
Museum)
See also
Google Map 57 + 630 Squadron and a
propeller from another Lancaster.
The airmen are buried in Skarrild Churchyard.
See Grave of the Lancaster
Crew and more on www.skarrild.dk.
Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) Evelyn George William Bowers, 22, was the son of
Thomas and Catharine Bowers, of Malvern Link, Worcestershire, United Kingdom.
(Source:
CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1, Panel 11.
See
No. 630 Squadron
RAF * 630 Squadron Home
Page * 57 & 630 Squadron Association
* Lincolnshire
Aviation Heritage Centre * Lancaster photos.
Lancaster I ME650 LE-B took off from
RAF East Kirkby
at 19:58 on 26 AUG 1944. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered has
this.) 7 airmen.