Remembering Today Casualty Details | CWGC LIGHTOWLER, ERIC Rank: Serjeant Service No: 4618546 Date of Death: 06/06/1944 Age: 24 Regiment/Service: The Glider Pilot Regiment, A.A.C., 1st Wing Grave Reference: VA. E. 6. Cemetery: RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: VA. E. 6. Location: France Additional Information: Son of Albert and Edith Lightowler, of Moldgreen, Huddersfield. Personal Inscription: DEAR TWIN SON OF ALBERT & EDITH LIGHTOWLER MOLD GREEN, HUDDERSFIELD, YORKSHIRE
Details of the above loss. 6 June 1944 B Squadron GPR Horsa C/N 42 The glider was conveying a load for the Royal Engineers but short of the Normandy coast the tow rope broke and the aircraft was ditched in the sea. Although one of the glider pilots was found drowned the other was not recovered and the fate of the passengers is unknown, although some are thought to have been killed. Staff Sergeant John Pascal Brabham 23. The Glider Pilot Regiment. Sergeant Eric Lightowler 22. The Glider Pilot Regiment. Source - Though Without Anger - C. Cummings
S/Sgt BRABHAM was intially buried at Honfleur (his body was washed ashore there), later reburies at Saint Desir W.cemetery VI-B-14 while his co-pilot Sgt Eric LIGHTOWLER was initially buried at Villers Sur Mer, and later reburied at Ranville W.C. , VA-E-06 So far I have not found information about their passengers. Ludo
