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Pilot Officer Robert Flemming Lowther

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Pilot Officer Robert Flemming Lowther

Birth
Chignecto, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death
8 Nov 1943 (aged 23)
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Memorial Site*
Ottawa, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada

* A structure erected in honor of someone whose remains lie elsewhere.

Plot
Panel 2. Column 4.
Memorial ID
18428112 View Source
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Attempted a night landing on glassy water in hazy conditions. The aircraft crashed and sank in the Bay south-east of Botwood, Newfoundland. P/O (OB) Robert Fleming Lowther has no known grave, his name is inscribed on the Ottawa War Memorial, Ottawa, Ontario.
F/L(P) Redmond, Joseph Coates , S/O Irene Watson , Sgt (WAG) Eric John Mills , Major Kenneth Storey Morton , W/O1 (WAG) Mandel Max Epstein and W/C (P) Ralph Royden Ings also perished in this incident.

from Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Pilot Officer, Robert Flemming Lowther
November 8, 1943
Service Number: J/41907
Age: 23
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 116 Sqdn.

Son of Eldred F. Lowther and Eva Mae Lowther; husband of Marion E. Lowther, of Kitchener, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 183 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.

This is a Memorial Site. View Cenotaph here

Attempted a night landing on glassy water in hazy conditions. The aircraft crashed and sank in the Bay south-east of Botwood, Newfoundland. P/O (OB) Robert Fleming Lowther has no known grave, his name is inscribed on the Ottawa War Memorial, Ottawa, Ontario.
F/L(P) Redmond, Joseph Coates , S/O Irene Watson , Sgt (WAG) Eric John Mills , Major Kenneth Storey Morton , W/O1 (WAG) Mandel Max Epstein and W/C (P) Ralph Royden Ings also perished in this incident.

from Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Pilot Officer, Robert Flemming Lowther
November 8, 1943
Service Number: J/41907
Age: 23
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 116 Sqdn.

Son of Eldred F. Lowther and Eva Mae Lowther; husband of Marion E. Lowther, of Kitchener, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 183 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.

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Royal Canadian Air Force

Gravesite Details

J/41907

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