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BIRTLEY (Gateshead)

Harrison, W., F/Sgt., 1941
2016

Photo: Dorothy Hall

2016

Photo: Dorothy Hall

In Birtley New Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave with a private headstone of 755521 Flight Sergeant William Harrison, serving with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died 03/08/1941.

The headstone reads:-

In loving memory of
William Harrison
Died 3rd August 1941 aged 29 years

Till the dawn breaks

Sgt. Harrison was serving with 25 Operational Training Unit. He was a crew member of Wellington IC X3177 which took off from Finningley on a night training exercise, and flew into the ground in Nottinghamshire.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: Vol. 7; Operational Training Units 1940-1947; W.R. Chorley; 2002; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 132 6

William Harrison is remembered in Monkseaton on M15.02


The CWGC entry for Flight Sergeant Harrison

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk

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