Sgt. Lowery was serving with 207 Sqdn. He was a crew member of Lancaster I LL776 EM-S which took off from Spilsby on a mission to Braunschweig. The aircraft was damaged by a night fighter and crashed in Germany. Two crew members were killed, 5 were made pows and one evaded capture.This was on a night when 38 aircraft were lost.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1944; W.R. Chorley; 1997; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 91 1
Tony Hibberd has added the following:
Lancaster LL776 EM-S had departed Spilsby at 2227 for Ops Braunschweig. It was probably intercepted at 5400M N of Meppen by a Night-Fighter captained by Uffz Heinz Krause (III/NJG3) and shot down at 0029 for his 5th Abschuss.
Nacht Jagd War Diaries Vol 2 Dr Theo Boiten.
John Lowery is remembered at Great Lumley on G50.01 and at Woodstone Village on W134.02
