| Sergeant Harold
Wride was
serving as Flight Engineer on board Lancaster Mk.II
DS840 coded
OW-C during an operation to
Nuremberg on March 30/31, 1944. The aircraft left Linton-on-Ouse at
2158hrs, joining a 68 mile long bomber stream of which 96
aircraft would fail to return.
On
reaching the target area the Lancaster was shot down by a
night-fighter. It fell at Ermreuth,4km WSW of Grafenberg,
the entire crew was lost.
The crew consisted of:
|
Name |
Service |
Trade |
Hometown |
Age |
|
F/L Walter Cracknell |
RCAF |
Pilot |
Fort William, Ontario |
- |
|
Sgt Harold Wride |
RAFVR |
Flight Engineer |
Hull |
24 |
|
F/Sgt Alexander Devoy |
RCAF |
Navigator |
- |
23 |
|
Sgt Hubert Orr |
RCAF |
Bomb Aimer |
- |
30 |
|
W/O2 Milton Moosman |
RNZAF |
W/Op/AG |
Wellington, New Zealand |
23 |
|
F/O Leroy Robinson |
RCAF |
Air Gunner |
Golden, British Columbia |
27 |
|
F/Sgt Roy Haycock |
RCAF |
Air Gunner |
Ingersoll, Ontario |
25 |
Sergeant
Harold Wride RAFVR was the eldest son of Harry and Lucy Wride
of De La Pole Avenue, Hull and a much loved brother of
Richard (Dick), Sidney, Joyce and Margaret and cousin to
Harry, Victoria and Joan.
In
1938 he joined the Royal Air Force and became a trained ground
crew engineer. From there he was remustered as aircrew and
eventually posted to 426 squadron.
The entire crew is
buried in the Durnbach War Cemetery.
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