Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sergeant Scrowther was the rear gunner aboard Avro Lancaster I PD278 HA-V of 218 Squadron, which was shot down by a Luftwaffe night-fighter on a mission to Dessau. The Lancaster came down at Marisfield, some 7 miles from Meiningen, with the loss of all seven crew members.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World war 1945 W.R. Chorley; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 92 X
Tony Hibberd has offered the following:
Lancaster PD278 HA-V had departed Chedburgh at 1728 for Ops Dessau
It was intercepted SSW of Meiningen by a Night-Fighter captained by Fw Helmut Burkhard (1/NJG5) and shot down at 2245 for his 3rd Abschuss
Nacht Jagd War Diaries Vol 2 Dr Theo Boiten
Ronald Scrowther is remembered in Bothal on B48.01 and at Pegswood on P6.01 and P6.02
