Amroth Beach

SN 163 072 On December 9th, 1942 the body of Pilot Officer Howard Earl Dabbs was washed up on the beach.

The Medical Officer and ambulance from RAF Carew Cheriton recovered the body and declared that the death was due to drowning.

Pilot Officer Howard Earl Dabbs DFCP/O Dabbs was the pilot of a Lancaster bomber from 101 Squadron, which crashed in the sea of St Margaret's Island on the night of December 6th/7th.  The aircraft was returnung from a bombing raid on Mannheim and was over 300 miles off course from its home base of Holme-on-Spalding-Moor.  Today, twenty-year-old P/O Dabbs rests in the war graves plot at Carew Cheriton alongside two of his crew members.  His family are regular visitors to the cemetery from their home in British Columbia in Canada.

 

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