Trafford

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.