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Military service
Service number:
J/88730
Age:
23
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
May 19, 1921
Hamilton, Ontario
Enlistment:
May 30, 1942
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
July 29, 1944
Bremervorde, Germany
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 253.
Additional information
Son of Henry Claire and Lulu May Truscott, of Hamilton, Ontario.
Additional citations
1939-1945 Star, Atlantic Star, Aircrew Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Eligible for Bomber Command Bar.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Harold Edmund Truscott
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Lancaster LL687
Berlin Special - Lancaster Bomber LL687 EQ*M Lost during Hamburg operations July 29, 1944 Crashed at Spreckens, Germany. All crew killed except Flt Eng David Scott who was taken PoW until end of war. -
Photo of Harold E. Truscott
P/O Harold E. Truscott, Mid Upper Gunner, Lancaster LL687 EQ*M, 408th Goose Squadron. KIA July 29, 1944 in Lancaster crash at Spreckens, Germany during sortie to Hamburg. No known grave. -
Crew of Lancaster LL687 EQ*M, 408th Goose Squadron.
Sitting on Lancaster LL723 EQ*H during dry ditching training. L-R: P/O MU Harold (Hal) Truscott, Nav Bob Whitson, Tail Gunner P/O Jack Imrie, F/L Wireless Op Gordon Croucher, Flt Eng David Scott, Pilot Don Ryan. (Photo by Bomb Aimer P/O Al Durnin.) All crew, except Flt Eng David Scott, KIA July 29, 1944 in Lancaster crash at Spreckens, Germany during sortie to Hamburg. -
Group Photo
Dry Ditching Exercise on LL723. L-R Harold Truscott by upper turrent, Gordon Croucher, Bob Whitson, Don Ryan climbing out of hatch, David Scott inboard wing and Al Durnin outboard wing. -
Ground Crew for LL687
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Group Photo
Harold Truscott and Bob Whitson -
Photo of Harold Truscott
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Photo of Harold Truscott
Harold is seen here jumping out of a window at Benningbrough Hall. -
Photo of Harold Truscott
Rowing a skiff. -
Group Photo
Bob Whitson, David Scott and Harold Truscott on the Beningbrough Grounds. -
Group Photo
Jack Imrie, David Scott and Harold Truscott. -
Group Photo
Harold Truscott, Bob Whitson and Jack Imrie outside Beningbrough Hall. -
Enlistment photo
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Photo of Harold Truscott
Enlistment photo -
Crew Photo
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Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of HAROLD EDMUND TRUSCOTT
Harold Edmund Truscott, 1943 -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Harold Edmund Truscott is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Harold Edmund Truscott is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Harold Edmund Truscott
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Harold Edmund Truscott
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Harold Edmund Truscott
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Harold Edmund Truscott
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Harold Edmund Truscott
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Harold Edmund Truscott
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Harold Edmund Truscott
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Harold Edmund Truscott
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Harold Edmund Truscott
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 465 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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