Personnel Index - Detail
Name
HARSLEY
First Names
James Henry Smith
Rank
F/Sgt
Service
RAF
Service Number
1380381
Crew Position
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Posting In
3/43
Posting Out
7/43
Cemetery
The crew transferred (almost to the man) to 83Sqn after 16 operations.
F/Sgt Harsley was killed on the 26th November 1943 during a raid on Berlin with 83Sqn and is remembered on the Runnymede Memorial.
Extract is from Bill Chorley's Bomber Command Losses
Unknown, Sgt M H King, Sgt R H Pennells, Sgt K R Millar, Sgt F R Birks, F/Sgt W Foster, Unknown, Sgt J H Harsley.
(One of the unknowns will be Sgt F Earnshaw)