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Military service
Service number:
R/85807
Age:
29
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Death:
May 28, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Class 2. Row 7. Grave 336.
Additional information
Son of John H. Davis and Gladys E. Davis, of Utopia, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Henry Lawrence Davis
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Grave marker
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Photo of Henry Lawrence Davis
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Biography
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Henry Lawrence Davis is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Henry Lawrence Davis is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Annually, in about October and November, banners are displayed in Barrie, Ontario, to commemorate local war dead. Pictured here is a banner in memory of Flight Sergeant H.L. Davis. On May 28, 1942, F/Sgt Davis was serving in No. 1443 (Ferry Training) Flight, stationed at RAF Harwell, England; he was flying as the 2nd pilot of a Wellington bomber, engaged in a fuel consumption test flight in preparation for ferrying the aircraft to the Middle East. Near Dolgellau, Merionethshire (now Gwynedd), Wales, the aircraft entered cloud and flew into the northeast face of Mynydd Moel, impacting the mountain just below its summit. All the airmen aboard were killed, including another Canadian, an Australian and three Britons. (Image taken by Gregory J. Barker of Barrie, Ontario, in 2020.) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Barrie Examiner c.1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Henry Lawrence Davis
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Henry Lawrence Davis
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 68 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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TOWYN CEMETERY Merioneth, United Kingdom
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