GOWER, Erasmus Francis
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Rank:
Lieutenant (later Captain)
Unit / Base:
47RM Commando
'3 Commando Brigade, Royal Marines'
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Artillery
Service:
Army
Service Number:
162742
Died :
Wednesday, September 9, 1953
Cemetery/Memorial:
Lieutenant Erasmus Francis Gower, R.A., was attached to No.47 Royal Marine Commando in 1944. He relinquished his commission on 11 July 1947 and was granted the honorary rank of Captain [1][2].
On 9 September 1953 Erasmus Gower, now an accountant working in Hong Kong, and a Liaison Officer for the Royal Hong Kong Defence Force, was invited as an observer onto a naval patrol of Her Majesty’s Motor Launch (HMML) 1323, of the Hong Kong Flotilla based at H.M.S. Tamar. The Motor Launch was attacked and shelled by a Chinese communist gunboat on the Pearl River. Captain Gower and six others on board were killed in this incident [3][4].
Sources
[1] Navy Lists October 1944 Volume 2 Page 1104. (see Linked Content below).
[2] London Gazette 38012, page 3202.
[3] South China Morning Post article 8th September 2018.
[4] Commando Association newsletter 18 issued March 1954.
Notes
Grave reference: Plot 17---/07/08 - Hong Kong Cemetery, formerly known as HK Happy Valley Cemetery and HK Colonial Cemetery.
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