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Object ID
5608
Title
A Sunderland on patrol, the type of airplane Ross Bowling was on during World War II.
Date
[between 1940 and 1945].
Description
A Sunderland on patrol, the type of airplane Ross Bowling was on during World War II. Ross took this photo from the window of another Sunderland while in flight.
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Bowling, Frank Ross
Frank Ross Bowling was the son of Frank and Nellie Bowling (nee Ross), born Dec. 17, 1921, at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster. Ross served overseas with the RCAF as a wireless air gunner during WWII. There he met and married (Lois) Barbara Lois Cross on July 1, 1944. They had two children, Malcolm Ian (b. 1948) and Gloria Carol (b. 1955). Ross purchased the 40 acres next to his dad's farm (on 96th Ave.) from the Robinson family. Ross was the president of the Langley Farmers' Institute in 1953. Ross died on November 28, 2000, at Langley Memorial Hospital.
World War, 1939-1945
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