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Flying Officer Harold Allan Hannah

Harold Allan Hannah

Military service

Service number: J/28186
Age: 24
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 405 Sqdn.
Death: January 27, 1945

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Sec. G. Row F. Grave 12.
Additional information

Son of Allan and Mary Hannah of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

Brother of Flying Officer Lloyd Albert Hannah, who died while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force. Out of the nine Hannah siblings, four sons and one daughter served with the Canadian forces during the Second World War.

Less than three weeks after his brother died, Harold was flying over Germany as a pathfinder - dropping flares to highlight the target for the bombers following behind. A piece of shrapnel pierced the plane’s canopy and entered Harold’s lung rendering him unconscious. He died in the hospital.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 522 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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