Discover Mory Abbey Military Cemetery | Commonwealth War Graves Commission | CWGC

On 19 March 1917, two young British airmen, Captain Eldred Bowyer-Bower and Second Lieutenant Eric Elgey, were attacked and shot out of the skies above Arras by a German ace. After crashing to the ground behind enemy lines both Bowyer-Bower and Elgey were buried next to their plane.
Just days afterwards, and following the retreat of German forces to the Hindenburg Line, Captain Thomas Bowyer-Bower was determined to find the graves in order to give his son Eldred a proper burial. Something against all the odds he was able to do.
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