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Sgt. Ralph Thomas Gyrden Lester

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 106 Squadron

from:Hull, East Yorkshire

(d.9th Oct 1943)

Ralph Lester joined the RAF when he was just seventeen, he lied about his age of course; He was a Flight Sergeant and was lost over Hanover, Germany 9 Oct 1943, when he was 18. He would go on leave in an aircraftsman uniform and told his mother he was a mechanic; she only found out the truth the day or so before he was lost. She herself joined the WAAFs and she was then over 43. Ralph is buried in Hanover War Cemetery.



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