| Notes: | CMP. 53 (Welch) Div Pro Coy. 14/2/40 enlisted in the Durham Light Infantry, 25/1/41 transferred to CMP. 21/7/44 Died. He was born and resided in Salford. Unit War Diary WO 171/569 21/7/44 7 L/Cpl's Benjafield, Hazzard, Penson, Harris, Hawkins, Greenstreet & Church), killed in action at PW cage. PW cage was bombed by enemy aircraft. Casualty List 1514, North West Europe, Killed in Action, 21/7/1944.
Inscription on gravestone: Peace perfect peace.
John Harris.
Extract from the Fleetwood Chronicle 18/8/1944.
L/Cpl John Harris. KILLED IN ACTION IN NORMANDY.
Lance Corporal Joh Harris, member of the Corps of Military Police is the second member of Fleetwood Parks Staff to lose his life in action. The other - among the earliest Fleetwood victims of the war - Wireless Telegraphist Horace Richard Dixon, drowned when HMS Courageous was sung in September 1939.
Lance Corporal Harris, who was 26, joined the Parks Department on May 11th 1939, and was a member of the greenhouse staff.
He joined the Forces in February 1940 and for a time was stationed in Northern Ireland. He married a Liverpool girl, who lives at 129 Carisbrook Street, Walton and is on the clerical staff of the ATS.
In July Lance Corporal Harris was sent to Normandy and he was killed on the 21st. |
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