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Military service
Service number:
R/161424
Age:
21
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
463 (R.A.A.F.) Sqdn
Death:
January 29, 1944
Broballe, Denmark
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Allied Military Plot. Row 4. 20A.
Additional information
Son of Walter and Ethel Suthers, of Hamilton, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Harold Suthers
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Memorial
Photo of the memorial dedicated to the two crews involved in a mid-air collision 01.29.1944<P> Courtesy Air War over Denmark www.flensted.eu.com<P> Lancaster I HK537 of 463 (RAAF) Sqn took off at 00.35 from its home base at Waddington on a mission to Berlin.<P> En route to Berlin HK537 collided with Lancaster III JA967 of 83 (RAF) Sqn over Augustenborg Fjord. The major part of HK537 crashed in the fields of Pommersgaard farm near Mjels.<P> Air Gnr. F/Sgt Harold Suthers RCAF was found dead near Broballe among the wreckage of JA967 <P> All onboard died and rest in Aabenraa cemetery, Jutland, Denmark. -
Cemetery
Aabenraa cemetery 1948.<P> Photo courtesy of Air War over Denmark www.flensted.eu.com -
Photo of Harold Suthers
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Memorial
Flight Sergeant Harold Suthers is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant Harold Suthers is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of HAROLD SUTHERS
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Photo of HAROLD SUTHERS
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Grave marker
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Photo of HAROLD SUTHERS
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Photo of HAROLD SUTHERS
Ethel with sons at the beach. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Document
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Suthers
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Suthers
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Suthers
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Suthers
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Suthers
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Suthers
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Suthers
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Suthers
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Harold Suthers
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 456 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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