LEST WE FORGET
Flight Lieutenant Harold Rowland ROWLANDS DFC
Service No: 402404
Born: Cwmcarm, Wales, 2 May 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 19 August 1940 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 213 Squadron (RAF), Gamil, Egypt
Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC), 25 April 1944 (Citation Title: No. 213 Squadron RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 213 Squadron Spitfire aircraft MH837), Egypt, 25 March 1944, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
CWGC Additional Information: Son of George Hyndman Rowlands and Alice Louise Rowlands, of Rockdale, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Sydney NSW
Remembered: Panel 129, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Flight Lieutenant Rowlands previously served with No. 451 Squadron in North Africa.
On 25 March 1944, Spitfire MH837 flown by Flight Lieutenant Rowlands crashed 2.5 kms southwest of Daihut, Egypt and he was killed. The impact caused the aircraft to become buried in soft ground to a depth of about 30 feet.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
Herington, J. (John) (406545) Air War Against Germany and Italy 1939-1943, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1954 – footnote page 101
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/158/179