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Pilot Officer RICHARD FRANCIS GOWER

Service Number: 40693
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

49 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 11 August 1940

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

30. B. 8.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Herbert Charles Alfred and Ethel Marion Gower, of Cromer, Norfolk. F.S.M.C.
  • Personal Inscription "PEACE, PEACE! HE IS NOT DEAD... HE HAS OUT-SOARED THE SHADOW OF OUR NIGHT"
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Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 7671
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