No.1616368, Sergeant, Henry Morris HATLEY
Aged 23
medal entitlement not known
No. 76 O.T.U., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Killed on Active Service on Thursday, 21st September 1944
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Henry 'Harry' Morris Hatley was born in 1921 (Newmarket Q3-1921 3B:822), son of Morris Barrows and Janet Elizabeth HATLEY(née WEBB) of Lode
In the 1939 register, at Lode Farm, Lode Fen were his parents, father Morris [13-7-1896] a farm worker; mother Janet E [25-11-1897] and sister Sheila M [20-8-1933] later JACKSON. There are 5 closed records. |
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Vickers Wellington Mk X, ser no HF462 of 76 Operational Training Unit (from Aqir now Tel Nof Israeli Air Force Base) crashed at Midan Ismail Pasha near Cairo when control was lost during a searchlight co-operation exercise.
Crew were: Sgt Norman BROOKS (pilot); Sgt Maxwell Currie GILL (Air Gunner); Sgt Geoffrey Albert ANDREWS (W.Op/Air Gunner); Sgt Edward BENNETT (Air Gunner);
Sgt Henry Morris HATLEY (Navigator); Sgt Andrew Mcdonald McILVEAN(Flight/Engineer); Sgt Francis Gerald WOODCOCK, (Navigator); Sgt Bertram James FOURACRE (Air Bomber).
All were killed.
This was above the normal crew numbers for a Wellington, but the unit was working up crews for conversion to Liberators.
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