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Robert Dudley Howarth | |||
Rank: | Sergeant | Number: | 546918 |
Ship/Rgn/Sqn No: | 050 Sqn RAFVR | ||
Name of Rgt or Ship: | Bomber Command | ||
Died: | 25/03/1942 | Age: | 23 |
Country of burial: | U.K. | ||
Cemetery or Memorial: | Runnymede Memorial | ||
Town Memorial: | Not Listed | ||
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Born during the June quarter 1919 in the Bucklow R.D. - ref: 8a/208, the son of Herbert & Ethel Margaret Howarth (nee Robinson). 1921 Census - 16, Gaskell Road, Altrincham. Son - aged: 2 yrs 3 mths - born: Altrincham. Head of household - Herbert Howarth - Married - aged: 37 - occ: Iron Foundry Manager at George Richards Ltd., Machine Tool Makers, Broadheath. Also Ethel Margaret Howarth - Wife - aged: 24 - born: Moore, Cheshire. 1939 National Registration - No Trace - already serving perhaps? His parents were then residing at 13 Meadow Bank, Altrincham. His father was still the manager at George Richards and his mother was a Red Cross Nurse. They had an Ina Simmons and her two children residing with them. Serving with 50 Sqn, he took off from RAF Skellingthorpe at 19.40 hrs as an Air Gunner/Wireless Operator in a Hampden MkI bomber No. AT151 VN for a bombing raid on Essen, Germany. Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by a night fighter over the North Sea off Vieland by Oberleutnant Ludwig Becker of the 6./NJG 2, who had taken off from Leeuwarden airfield. The a/c and crew of four was lost without trace CWGC - Son of Herbert Howarth, and of Ethel Margaret Howarth, of West Wickham, Kent. The other crew members were:- Pilot - Pilot Officer Howard Phillips Roblin (aged: 22); Sgt. Eric Alexander Gordon Lumsden (aged: 36); Sgt. Joseph Davidson Beattie (aged: 21). Commemorated on the family gravestone in Sale Cemetery - I.1343. |
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