George William Spowart                    Updated: 10 MAY 2021

Airman: a096008.htm Surname: Spowart Init: G W Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 10

P_link: p116.htm Plane: HAL DT520 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Sea off Langeland

Crash_d: d011042 Buried_d: b091042 C_link: c096.htm At_Next: Svinø

Den 1. oktober 1942 styrtede HAL DT520 i havet omkring her ud for Nordenbro, Langeland under et bombetogt til Flensborg. Hele besætningen omkom.

Den 6. oktober 1942 blev G. H. Spowart fundet i havet af en tysk minestryger.
Han blev begravet på Svinø Kirkegård den 7. oktober 1942. (Kilde: AOD)
Sergeant (Flight Engineer) George William Spowart, 22 år, var søn af George Bertram Spowart og
Jeannie Spowart, Doncaster, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

5 af de 7 flyvere blev begravet i Odense og 2 på Svinø Kirkegård. (Kilde: FAF) 7 flyvere.

On 1 October 1942 HAL DT520 crashed into the sea about here off Nordenbro, Langeland on a
bombing raid on Flensburg, here. All of the crew perished. See p116MACR.

On 6 October 1942 G. H. Spowart was found at sea by a German mine sweeper.
He was buried in Svinø Churchyard on 7 October 1942. (Source: AOD)
Sergeant (Flight Engineer) George William Spowart, 22, was the son of George Bertram Spowart and Jeannie Spowart, of Doncaster, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
Treasured memories of our dear son and brother George "Till we meet again"

He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre,
Phase 2, Panel 246.

5 of the 7 airmen were buried in Odense and 2 in Svinø Churchyard. (Source: FAF)
See No. 10 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * RAF 10 Squadron Association.
Halifax * Halifax Print * Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum
Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum * Halifax Mk III at YAM 2019
Halifax II DT520 ZA-J took off from RAF Melbourne  at 18.00 hrs on 01 OCT 1942.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has  this).  7 airmen.