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210111 Sgt. Harold Knight Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Air Gunner 50 Squadron from:Oldham (d.17 April 1942) Harold Knight was my uncle. In civilian life he was a ladies hairdresser at 3 High Street, Wotton Under Edge, Gloucestershire. His home town was Oldham, Lancashire. He was killed on the night of 17/18 April 1942. He was part of the crew of a Manchester 1 bomber serial R5782, code VN. Their objective was to bomb Hamburg. They took off at 2340 hours from RAF Skellingthorpe and crashed at 0335 hours on the southern edge of the Tangstedter Staatsforst, Km southwest of Tangstedt. The crew were: P/O G. Baker Killed F/S C. B. Mackenzie RNZAF pow camp 357 (Stalag Kopernikus), pow number 169 Sgt F. J. S. Pearce RCF pow Stalag Luft 4 (Sagan & Bearia) pow number39630 Sgt R. B. Dawson pow Stalag Luft 3 (Sagan & Belaria) pow number 151 F/S A. T. Griffiths pow, Stalag Luft 6 (Heydekrug) pow number 159 Sgt S. Cranford pow camp 357 (Stalag Kernkus)pow number 147 Sgt H. Knight Killed The two crew members killed were buried in Utersen cemetery. They were later moved to a British Military Cemetery at Ohlsdorf, Hamburg Their grave is No 5, Row f, Plot No IV Please type your message:      We recommend you copy the text about this item and keep a copy on your own computer before pressing submit. Your Name:             Email Address:       @ **Please type the first part our your email in the first box (eg. john.smith) the @ sign is added automaticallly, please type the second part in the second box (eg. gmail.com). Do not enter your full email in each box or add an @ sign or random spaces.** Please type in the code shown here:    If you are unable to read the code please click here. If you have received an error message for incorrect code, please click to refresh the code before resending. This should overcome the error message.