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Freshwater, N.E., F/Sgt., 1945
In Hanover War Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave of 3030186 Flight Sergeant Norman Ernest Freshwater, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, who died 05/01/1945.

Simon Glancey has submitted the following:

F/Sgt Freshwater was killed when Handley Page Halifax III NA114 ZA-K of 10 Squadron was lost on a mission to Hanover. The Halifax was shot down by a Luftwaffe night-fighter, crashing some 7 miles north of Detmold with the loss of all eight crew members.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1945; W.R. Chorley; 1998; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 92 X, page 31


The CWGC entry for Flight Sergeant Freshwater

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