Alan William Gowdey                           Updated: 10 MAR 2021

Airman: a099001.htm Surname: Gowdey Init: A W Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 405

P_link: p375.htm Plane: LAN PB527 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea.

Crash_d: d160944 Buried_d: b170645 C_link: c099.htm At_Next: Sønderho

"Under en mission til Kiel den 16. september 1944 nedstyrtede et "Lancaster" fly i Nordsøen.
Hele besætningen omkom." (FAF)  Se p375MACR.

Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Alan William Gowdey, 19 år, var søn af James Craig Gowdey og Louisa Harriet Gowdey, Battersea, London, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

A.W. Gowdey blev begravet 17. juni 1945 af pastor K. Voldum, Nordby, efter at have været begravet af værnemagten på stranden nær Sønderho her i efteråret 1944. (Kilder: FAF og AOD)
Hans lig blev fundet på Sønderho Strand den 15. juni 1945. (Kilde: Kirkebogen for Sønderho Sogn)
Mit Fanø har mere om Soldatergrave her.

1 mand er begravet i Sønderho, 1 i Esbjerg og 5 har ikke nogen kendt grav. Se Lancaster fotos
og Archive Report med detaljer og fotos. 7 flyvere.

This Lancaster crashed in the North Sea on 16 September, 1944 during a bombing raid on Kiel.
All of the crew perished. (Source: FAF) See p375MACR.

Flight Sergeant (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) Alan William Gowdey, 19, was the son of James Craig Gowdey and Louisa Harriet Gowdey, of Battersea, London, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)

A.W. Gowdey was buried in Sønderho on 17 June, 1945 by the Reverend K. Voldum, Nordby, after having been buried by the Wehrmacht on the beach near Sønderho here in the autumn of 1944.
(Sources: FAF and AOD)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P 171.

1 airman is buried in Sønderho, 1 in Esbjerg and 5 have no known grave. 

See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 405 (City of Vancouver) Squadron RCAF * 405 Squadron Association * No. 405 Squadron RAF Pathfinders
See also Lancaster Photos * Lancaster - Bomber Command Museum of Canada * Avro 683 Lancaster Mk X - IWM Duxford
Lancaster-Wikipedia *  LAN-HAL *  Lancaster photos
Lancaster III PB527 LQ-K took off from RAF Gransden Lodge at 22.35 hrs on 15 SEP 1944. (Source: Aircrew Remembered has this and Archive Report.) 7 airmen.