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Corporal JOHN WILLIAM HARRIS

Service Number: 26790

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Dorsetshire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 04 February 1917

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BEAUMONT-HAMEL BRITISH CEMETERY

B. 41.

France

The final resting place of Pilot Officer George Smith in the Durnbach Military Cemetery._x000B__x000B_RAF Lancaster JB221 belonging to 97 Squadron took off on 26th November 1943 from RAF Bourn in Cambridgeshire with a crew of seven onboard for a bombing mission over Frankfurt in central Germany but failed to return to its home base. The aircraft was later reported to have crashed 1 mile east of the village of Brandau, 25 miles south east of Frankfurt. Three fatalities were recovered at the time and buried locally in Brandau cemetery and later reinterred at the Durnbach Military cemetery. The four other crew members could not be found and were commemorated on the Air Forces Memorial at Runnymede, UK._x000B__x000B_Picture by Mike Drewett

Photographer: Mike Drewett

Country of Service United Kingdom
Additional Info Son of Ebenezer Harris.
Personal Inscription PEACE PERFECT PEACE

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