LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Gordon Charles FOWLER
Service No: 425009
Born: 23 January 1922, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAAF: 7 December 1941
Unit: No. 9 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Bardney
Died: Air Operations: (No. 9 Squadron Lancaster aircraft JA852), Germany, 23 September 1943, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Rheinberg War Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Peter Charles and Helen Fowler, of West End, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: West End QLD
Remembered: Panel 122, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1909 hours on 23 September 1943, Lancaster JA852 took off from Bardney to attack Mannheim, Germany. The aircraft crashed at Gerolsheim, 7 miles west north west of Frankenthal and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of JA952 were:
Flying Officer Edward Raymond Davies (134694) (RAFVR)
Sergeant Gordon Charles Fowler (425009) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Thomas Elliot Brydon Graham (1601124) (RAFVR)
Pilot Officer Robert Charles Ord (156711) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Sergeant George Palmer (1583498) (RAFVR)
Sergeant Rowland Arthur Williams (1604637) (RAFVR)
Sergeant John Wilson (1080434) (RAFVR)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Chorley W R, Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 4 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1943, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1996
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/14/99