Flight Sergeant Maurice M. Rowe, son of Edgar and Ellen, served with the #11 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron. He was one of four RCAF airmen who died on active service when their Lockheed Hudson aircraft #BW453 crashed on the return flight to the RCAF base in Dartmouth, after an anti-sub patrol. Poor visibility due to heavy fog caused the aircraft to crash in Preston, 6 miles east of Dartmouth.
Nova Scotia death record-
Maurice Medcalf Rowe died 1943 in Preston, Halifax County; death record can be found in Registration Year: 1943 - Book: 205 - Page: 504.
Military Service-
Service Number: R/99614
Age: 20
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Flight Sergeant Maurice Medcalf Rowe is commemorated on Page 209 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
The airmen who perished in this accident were-
Flight Sergeant Edgar MacMillan
Flight Sergeant Harold Chester Johnson
Flight Sergeant David Ronald Rhea
Nova Scotia death record-
Maurice Medcalf Rowe died 1943 in Preston, Halifax County; death record can be found in Registration Year: 1943 - Book: 205 - Page: 504.
Military Service-
Service Number: R/99614
Age: 20
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Flight Sergeant Maurice Medcalf Rowe is commemorated on Page 209 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
The airmen who perished in this accident were-
Flight Sergeant Edgar MacMillan
Flight Sergeant Harold Chester Johnson
Flight Sergeant David Ronald Rhea
Flight Sergeant Maurice M. Rowe, son of Edgar and Ellen, served with the #11 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron. He was one of four RCAF airmen who died on active service when their Lockheed Hudson aircraft #BW453 crashed on the return flight to the RCAF base in Dartmouth, after an anti-sub patrol. Poor visibility due to heavy fog caused the aircraft to crash in Preston, 6 miles east of Dartmouth.
Nova Scotia death record-
Maurice Medcalf Rowe died 1943 in Preston, Halifax County; death record can be found in Registration Year: 1943 - Book: 205 - Page: 504.
Military Service-
Service Number: R/99614
Age: 20
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Flight Sergeant Maurice Medcalf Rowe is commemorated on Page 209 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
The airmen who perished in this accident were-
Flight Sergeant Edgar MacMillan
Flight Sergeant Harold Chester Johnson
Flight Sergeant David Ronald Rhea
Nova Scotia death record-
Maurice Medcalf Rowe died 1943 in Preston, Halifax County; death record can be found in Registration Year: 1943 - Book: 205 - Page: 504.
Military Service-
Service Number: R/99614
Age: 20
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Flight Sergeant Maurice Medcalf Rowe is commemorated on Page 209 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
The airmen who perished in this accident were-
Flight Sergeant Edgar MacMillan
Flight Sergeant Harold Chester Johnson
Flight Sergeant David Ronald Rhea
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