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Gnr. William Frederick Bowers
British Army 475th Search Light Battery Royal Artillery
from:Bristol
(d.14th April 1941)
Bill Bowers was manning a heavyweight searchlight on The Isle of Portland and was killed by a bomb blast during a night time raid on the 14th of April 1941. Civilians were also killed in the same raid.