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- BOWDEN
- HGC
- HORACE GEORGE CECIL
- Reigate
- Surrey, England
- Son of George Henry and Ada Crouch Bowden, of 55, Ladbroke Rd., Red Hill, Surrey
- Cranleigh School
- Medical student
- Silver medal for the best shot among Surrey cadets; flying certificate taken on Maurice Farman Biplane at Military School Birmingham, 12 August 1916.
Militaire dienst
- February 1915
- Second Lieutenant
- 45th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
- Joined as a Despatch Rider; to France on 28 May 1915; commissioned in the RFC 3 June 1916; obtained his wings in October;
Overlijden
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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)
- Killed in action
- 11 March 1917
- 20
- X - A - 14
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