War Memorial Mouen

Mouen's war memorial lists the names of the soldiers who lived in the town and who died during the conflicts in which the country was involved.

Next to the monument there is a memorial plaque:
"In memory of the soldiers of the 10th Highland Light Infantry Battalion,
the 227th Brigade, 15th Scottish Division
who died during the Battle of Mouen on June 28, 1944.
May they rest in peace"
The plaque at the bottom contains the names of the victims.

Another memorial plaque is dedicated to Typhoon pilot George John Howard, born on
August 2, 1921 in Katoomba, New South Wales.
Before the war he worked as a clerk in the Shell Company office in Australia.
He enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in December 1941 and began basic training. In July 1942 he embarked for Canada, where he received further training.
He was one of almost 16,000 RAAF pilots, navigators, radio operators, gunners and engineers who joined Royal Air Force squadrons in Britain during the course of the war.
Once in Britain and after further training, in May 1944 he joined the RAF's 181st Squadron, a fighter-bomber squadron equipped with Hawker Typhoons.
On D-Day the squadron was given the dangerous task of attacking German tanks. Flying at low altitude there was a great danger of being shot down by ground fire. It was during an operation just north of Caen that Howard's Typhoon was shot down by enemy anti-aircraft fire. It was his first operational flight ever. He was 22 years old. On D-Day, George John Howard made the ultimate sacrifice.
His body was recovered from the wreckage and he was buried at the British Commonwealth War Cemetery in Bayeux

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Koos Winkelman