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Harvey, Donald Edmund Dunning
D E D
United Kingdom
Pilot Officer (Wireless Operator)
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
97 Sqdn.
21
10 May 1944
174353
D F M
Son of Donald and Madeleine Maud Harvey,
of Wetherby, Yorkshire.
Commonwealth War Dead
Coll. grave 1-3.
Lesquin Communal Cemetery |
Circumstances of Death:
Killed on Lancaster JB 708, which had the order to bomb rail facilities on 10/11 May 1944. JB 708 was one of two No. 97 Squadron Lancasters lost on this operation. The other Lancaster was ND 813.
Airborne was at 2201 on 10 May 1944 from Coningsby. The aircraft exploded in mid-air, showering debris over Vendeville in the southern outskirts of Lille.
All casualties are buried in Lesquin Communal Cemetery in France.
The crew were:
F/L J. B. Smith, DFC (RNZAF)
Sergeant A. R. Rowlands
F/L A. W. Weston
F/L L. C. Jones, DFC
P/O D. E. D. Harvey, DFM (not gazetted until 21 December 1945)
WO2 J. R. Chapman, DFC, RCAF
F/O S. G. C. Sherman |
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