Photo: B. Chandler
G.H. Cowings
Pilot
Royal Air Force
22nd March 1941 age 26
To live in the hearts
of those we love
is not to die.
Pilot Officer Cowings was serving with 18 Squadron. He was a crew member of Blenheim IV T2038 WV-M which took off from Boscombe Down on a mission to Lorient. The aircraft crashed in Lincolnshire on the return journey.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1941; W.R. Chorley; 1993; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 87 3
This was the same incident in which Pilot Off. Daniel was killed.
He is remembered in Heaton on H91.06 and H91.41, in Jesmond on J1.13, in Newcastle on NUT064 and in an RAF Roll of Honour