Sergeant Garth Richard Gower (1913-1942)

Sergeant Garth Richard Gower

Birth

27 Oct 1913

Wallaroo, District Council of Copper Coast, South Australia, Australia

Death

27 Jul 1942 (aged 28)

Bremerhaven, Stadt Bremerhaven, Bremen, Germany

Burial

Becklingen War Cemetery

Soltau, Heidekreis, Lower Saxony, Germany Add to Map

Plot

Coll. grave 12. D. 12-14.

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Son of Thomas and Alexandrina Grace Gower; husband of Beatrice Isabel Gower nee Wilson (m. 1941 in Stockton), of Stockton, New South Wales, Australia. His Vickers Wellington IV aircraft with the designation Z1483 was on a night operation over Hamburg, Germany, and crashed near Wesermünde (today's Bremerhaven).
(from Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and Ancestry.com)

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Royal Australian Air Force
Age 28
He made
The supreme sacrifice,
Sadly leaving
His wife Beatrice

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