Leonard Eric HARRISON

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HARRISON, Leonard Eric

Service Number:	416669
Enlisted:	16 August 1941, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Flying Officer
Last Unit:	No. 460 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 7 January 1917
Home Town:	Glenelg, Holdfast Bay, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Mine Surveyor
Died:	Flying Battle, Germany, 22 June 1943, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany Plot 6. Row B. Grave 8.
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Broken Hill Zinc Corporation Roll of Honour, Glenelg St Michael's War Chapel WW2 Honour Roll, Glenelg and District WW1 & WW2 Honour Board, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial

World War 2 Service

16 Aug 1941:	Involvement Flying Officer, 416669
16 Aug 1941:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
16 Aug 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 416669, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF), Adelaide, SA
26 Jun 1943:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 416669, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Eric Hylton Harrison and Hilda Adelaide Harrison, of Glenelg, South Australia.

Mrs. L. E. Harrison, of North Esplanade, Glenelg, has been in formed that her husband, FO Leonard Eric Harrison, has been posted missing from air operations in England on June 22. FO Harrison sailed for England in June. 1942, and was attached to a bomber squadron. At the time of enlisting" he was on the survey staff of the Zinc Corporation Ltd. Broken
Hill. He married Miss Loine Warren, of Glenelg, and is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Eric Harrison, of Glenelg.

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