Photo: B. Chandler
H. Irving
Navigator
Royal Air Force
12th January 1941 age 22
At rest
Treasured memories
of my dear son Harry
Always in our thoughts.
Sgt. Irving was serving with 49 Squadron. He was a crew member of Hampden I L4045 EA-Qwhich took off from Scampton on a mission to Wilhemshaven. It crashed in Lincolnshire, apparently trying to pull up to avoid some houses,
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1941; W.R. Chorley; 1993; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 87 3
He is remembered in Newcastle on NUT064 and in a RAF Book of Remembrance
