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DOWDELL EF
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DOWDELL, Edwin

Aircraft Information
Aircraft Avro Lancaster I
Serial Number W4108
Markings
Memorial information
Burial/Memorial Country Netherlands
Burial/Memorial Place Heerenveen (Nieuwehorne) Protestant Cemetery
Grave Reference Row 14. Grave 30..
Epitaph
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase 1
Panel Number 30
Enlistment information
Service Number 103490
Service Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Group 5
Squadron 1654 CU
Trade Pilot
Country of origin if different United Kingdom
Last Operation information
Start Date 13-09-1942
End Date 14-09-1942
Takeoff Station Wigsley
Day/Night raid Night
Operation Bremen
Reason for Loss Airborne 23:30 to bomb Aiming Point 'E'. Shot down 02:22 by Oblt. Ludwig Becker, II./NJG2, crashing onto farmland worked by the Kleistra brothers at Buytenweg, Oudehorne, Friesland, 10 km E of Heerenveene, Holland.