Bowen, Murray Gerald (Flight Sergeant)

Prisoner of War 1941-November-08

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Home: Verdun, Quebec

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Service

RCAF

Unit

99 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Quisque Tenax Each tenacious

Base

RAF Waterbeach

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Service Numbers

R/56191
PoW: 24383

Footprints on the Sands of Time, RAF Bomber Command Prisoners of War in Germany 1939-45 by Oliver Clutton-Brock, page 250

99 (Madras Presidency) Squadron RAF (Quisque tenax) RAF Waterbeach. Wellington Ic aircraft X9739 LN- was shot down by heavy flak during an operation against targets in Berlin Germany. The aircraft was claimed by multiple flak batteries: Reserve Flak Abteilung 801, Reserve Flak Abt 232, Reserve Flak Abteilung 907 and 5/Schwere Flakers Abteilung 6 and crashed near Wittorf, Germany, South-West of Frankfurt, mid-way between Stuttgart and Nuremberg

Sergeant R Dean RAF KIA Becklingen War Cemetery grave 12. C. 1.B. Germany. Sergeant A Mackenzie RAF KIA Becklingen War Cemetery grave 12. C. 1A.

POWs: Flight Sergeant Murray Gerald Bowen RCAF R/56191 POW Stalag Luft L6 Heydekrug. Flying Officer Harry Albert Goodwin RAF POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria. F/Lt H H Henderson RAF POW camp not listed. Pilot Officer W D Moore RAF POW camp not listed.

Nachtjagd Combat Archive, The Early Years Part 2, 13 July 1941 - 26 May 1942 by Theo Boiten, page 67

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