Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 140

W ORLD W AR II

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name NIGEL GREENSTREET BOWEN (Pilot Officer)

Lef SES 1938

Arrive SES 1934

Roll Number 2892 Died 16:08:1940

Set / House F

Where ADISHAM, KENT Serving with 266 SQN, FIGHTER CMD, R.A.F.V.R.

Age 21

Buried Wallingford Cemetery, Oxon Remembered The Battle of Britain London Monument, The Wallingford War Memorial and The St. Edward’s School WW2 Memorial Born in Wallingford, Berkshire 1919, the elder of two SES brothers the sons of a clergyman from Oxfordshire. House Prefect, Choir, Corporal OTC, Form Vc(ii). Soon after leaving School he was called up and he joined the RAFVR in 1939 on a short service commission, and three weeks later made his first solo flight three weeks later. He joined 266 Squadron, Fighter Command, flying Spitfires, as a Pilot Officer on probation in 1940 and was credited with shooting down two enemy aircraft over Dunkirk. He was killed returning from a mission over Dunkirk in mid August 1940, shot down in combat with Me109s and crashing in flames at Adisham, Kent.