Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Memorial – Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Pilot Officer Wilfred Herbert Howie as commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Pilot Officer Wilfred Herbert Howie is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Document – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Photo of WILFRED HERBERT HOWIE – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Document – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Letter – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Press Clipping

Commemorative Album Cover

Commemorative Poem

Press Clipping

Grave Marker – Photo of grave marker from http://www.hembygdshistoria.se/palsjo/cw2.htm and used with permission of Carin Olofsson. P/O Howie was Air Gunner on Lancaster ME592 which had been ABC equipped on 31 Jan 44. The crew had taken part in the following Key Operations: As SR-T, Mailly-le- Camp 3/4 May 44; As SR-D, Stuttgart 28/29 Jul 44; Fonteney-le-Marmion 7/8 Aug 44 (Tactical, nine-man crew); Kiel 26/27 Aug 44; Stettin 29/30 Aug 44 - Lost The aircraft was airborne 2125 29 Aug 44 from Ludford Magna on ABC duties. Those killed are buried in Sweden at Halsingborg (Palsjo) Municipal Cemetery with their Sqdn comrades from LL757. This was a remarkably young crew with P/O Piprell being the eldest at 22. Overall, their average age was 20. They were: P/O (P) G.L.Piprell RCAF, age 22, from Borden, Sask. Sgt (AG) W.H.Howie RCAF; age 19, from Glace Bay, N. S. Sgt (AG) F.J.Kendall RCAF, age 20, from Vancouver, B. C. And RAF crew members: .Sgts J. A.Gibbon Brown; J.C.Fawcett; W.G.N.Heath; G.Farrington (ABC operator) F/S E.W.Cunningham, RCAF ¿ survived. On the Lost Bombers website it said he was an evader, and in the book They Shall Grow Not Old, it says he was injured and interned in Sweden.

Cemetery – Photo of Palsjo Cemetery Courtesy of Carin Olofsson http://www.hembygdshistoria.se/palsjo/cw2.htm

Cross of Sacrifice – Photo of Cross of Sacrifice in Palsjo War Cemetery Courtesy of Carin Olofsson http://www.hembygdshistoria.se/palsjo/cw2.htm