Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Biography -
- L Harris -

Name

Leslie Harris, Son of William and Dorothea Irene Grace Harris; husband of Mary Sarah Monica Harris, of Milton Regis, Sittingbourne, Kent.
 
His name is recorded on the Lake War Memorial

Service details

Flight Sergeant 1335461 L Harris, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

CWGC record ...

Date of Death :	29th June 1943 aged 27
Where buried or commemorated :	Heverlee War Cemetery, Belgium
Squadron :	76 Sqn
Aircraft :	Handley Page Halifax Mk.V : DK137 : NP-R
Crew :
Pilot :	Sgt G C Parritt	CWGC record ...
Navigator :	Flt Sgt L Harris	CWGC record ...
Flight Engineer :	Sgt J L Burnside	CWGC record ...
Air Bomber :	Sgt B L Howard	CWGC record ...
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner :	Sgt R E Archer	CWGC record ...
Air Gunner :	Sgt C G L Vallance	CWGC record ...
Air Gunner :	Sgt R J Coggins	CWGC record ...

The aircraft took off from RAF Spalding-on-Moor for Ops over Germany. It was shot down by a night fighter, flown by Lt Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer of II/NJG 1, and crashed at 01.55 hrs at Vottem, 4 km North of Liege.
The crewmen are buried in a collective grave at Heverlee War Cemetery.
Flt Sgt Harris lived at Lake, Isle of Wight.

Information provided by : John Bloodworth