Detail victim

Name BOWDEN
Initials HGC
First name HORACE GEORGE CECIL
Place of birth Reigate
Country Surrey, England
Family Son of George Henry and Ada Crouch Bowden, of 55, Ladbroke Rd., Red Hill, Surrey
Education Cranleigh School
Profession Medical student
Extra info Silver medal for the best shot among Surrey cadets; flying certificate taken on Maurice Farman Biplane at Military School Birmingham, 12 August 1916.

Place & date of enlistment February 1915
Rank Second Lieutenant
Regiment and unit 45th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
Other data related to military career Joined as a Despatch Rider; to France on 28 May 1915; commissioned in the RFC 3 June 1916; obtained his wings in October;

Wounded The Sopwith Strutter A1071 was involved in an aerial combat between Ypres and Potijze, at 11.15 a.m.; was shot down by the Albatros D.III of Lt Josef Flink Ja 18; out of control, fell into Ypres Moat, wings folded, wrecked; Bowden was the pilot; his observer, 2Lt DB Stevenson was also killed in action (and is buried in Lijssenthoek)
Type of wounds Killed in action
Date of death 11 March 1917
Died at the age of 20
Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery X - A - 14