Fourdrain Communal Cemetery 

Historical Information (Source: CWGC)

Some eight yards south-east of the entrance are the graves of four airmen. Three of them belonged to the Royal Air Force and one to the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

 

Served in

  • New Zealand (1)
  • United Kingdom (3)

Served in

  • Air Force (4)

Stirling III EF162 – 90 Sqdn – 13 April 1944

Took off 2308 12 April 1944 from Tuddenham for France in a pre-invasion supply drop to the French Resistance.

Crew

Flight Sergeant Edward Arthur HARRISON (1129675) Wireless Operator RAF Laon (St. Just) Communal

Flight Sergeant Leonard Sidney QUELCH (1389820) Navigator RAF

Flight Sergeant Colin Baxter BOWLING (421011) Pilot NZAF

Flight Sergeant Thomas Douglas DUGGAN (1439832) Air Bomber RAF

Sergeant John JEFFERSON (1590889) Flight Engineer RAF

Prisoners of War for Stirling EF162

W/O1 George Beverley HOWARD (R/96243) Stalag Luft L6 Heydekrug

Flt Sgt Alexander George Clifford NICOL (1572739) Dulag DL Wetzlar