Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Biography -
- Lionel George Dowling -

Name

Lionel George Dowling, son of George and Beatrice Dowling, of Ventnor
 
Biography

Sgt 1312587 Lionel George Dowling, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

CWGC record ...

Further information

Name appears on the following memorial :

Ventnor War Memorial

Date of Death :	Died 26th July 1942 Aged 21
Where buried or commemorated :	Air Forces Memorial Runnymede Panel 82
Aircraft :	Handley Page Halifax Mk.II W1184 of 78 Sqn.
Crew
Pilot :	F/O C Mitchener	CWGC record ...
:	Sgt E A Tweedale	CWGC record ...
:	Sgt W J Taylor	CWGC record ...
:	Sgt W K Daniel	CWGC record ...
:	Sgt Morgan	CWGC record ... not found
:	Sgt G A R Bissonnette, Royal Canadian Air Force	CWGC record ...

The aircraft took off from an RAF Middleton St George at 22.53 hrs for operations to bomb Hamburg, but the aircraft was lost without trace.

Information provided by John Bloodworth

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