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210111
Sgt. Harold Knight
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Air Gunner 50 Squadron
from:Oldham
(d.17 April 1942)
Harold Knight was my uncle. In civilian life he was a ladies hairdresser at 3 High Street, Wotton Under Edge, Gloucestershire. His home town was Oldham, Lancashire.
He was killed on the night of 17/18 April 1942. He was part of the crew of a Manchester 1 bomber serial R5782, code VN. Their objective was to bomb Hamburg.
They took off at 2340 hours from RAF Skellingthorpe and crashed at 0335 hours on the southern edge of the Tangstedter Staatsforst, Km southwest of Tangstedt.
The crew were:
P/O G. Baker Killed
F/S C. B. Mackenzie RNZAF pow camp 357 (Stalag Kopernikus), pow number 169
Sgt F. J. S. Pearce RCF pow Stalag Luft 4 (Sagan & Bearia) pow number39630
Sgt R. B. Dawson pow Stalag Luft 3 (Sagan & Belaria) pow number 151
F/S A. T. Griffiths pow, Stalag Luft 6 (Heydekrug) pow number 159
Sgt S. Cranford pow camp 357 (Stalag Kernkus)pow number 147
Sgt H. Knight Killed
The two crew members killed were buried in Utersen cemetery. They were later moved to a British Military Cemetery at Ohlsdorf, Hamburg
Their grave is No 5, Row f, Plot No IV