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Military service
Service number:
R/153348
Age:
21
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class II
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
148 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
January 18, 1923
Shelburne, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
May 28, 1942
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
September 12, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave VI. C. 5-6.
Additional information
Son of Robert and Eva Mary Crowell, of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Grave marker
142 (RAF) Squadron Halifax II BB412 with mainly Royal Canadian Air Force crew flew into a mountain near Turin while on a supply drop to partisan forces with all crew KIA - Pilot Officer John Ervin O'BRIEN (J/87441) Pilot / Warrant Officer Class II Richard Alvinzie CROWELL (R/153348) Wireless Op / Flight Sergeant James Howard IRELAND (R/162102) Air Gunner / Flying Officer Joseph Miller PARKINSON (J/27460) Air Bomber / Flight Sergeant Albert Major VANDERHART (R/206366) Air Gunner / Flight Sergeant Bruce Woodward ELLISON (RNZAF 4310166) Navigator / Flight Sergeant Douglas Julius IVES (RAF 1615762) Flight Engineer / Sergeant Ronald McKEEN (RAF 2210512) Air Gunner / Captain WHITAKER of the Parachute regiment
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Richard Alvinzie Crowell
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Richard Alvinzie Crowell
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Richard Alvinzie Crowell
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Richard Alvinzie Crowell
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Richard Alvinzie Crowell
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Commemorated on:
Page 283 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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