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Harold Suthers

In memory of:

Flight Sergeant Harold Suthers

January 29, 1944
Broballe, Denmark

Military Service


Service Number:

R/161424

Age:

21

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

463 (R.A.A.F.) Sqdn

Additional Information


Son of Walter and Ethel Suthers, of Hamilton, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 456 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

Allied Military Plot. Row 4. 20A.

Location:

Aabenra is in Jutland, on the main road from Germany into Denmark, about 24 kilometres north of the frontier. It is about 105 kilometres from the port of Esbjerg. AABENRAA CEMETERY is on the western side of the town. The 1939-45 Plot is on the left-hand side of the main path towards the rear of the cemetery.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Photo of HAROLD SUTHERS– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Grave marker– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of HAROLD SUTHERS– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of HAROLD SUTHERS– Ethel with sons at the beach. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of HAROLD SUTHERS– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Document– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Harold Suthers– Photo courtesy of Air War over Denmark www.flensted.eu.com
  • Memorial– Flight Sergeant Harold Suthers is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Flight Sergeant Harold Suthers is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Cemetery– Aabenraa cemetery 1948.  
Photo courtesy of Air War over Denmark www.flensted.eu.com
  • Memorial– Photo of the memorial dedicated to the two crews involved in a mid-air collision 01.29.1944

Courtesy Air War over Denmark www.flensted.eu.com 

Lancaster I HK537 of 463 (RAAF) Sqn took off at 00.35 from its home base at Waddington on a mission to Berlin.  

En route to Berlin HK537 collided with Lancaster III JA967 of 83 (RAF) Sqn over Augustenborg Fjord.  The major part of HK537 crashed in the fields of Pommersgaard farm near Mjels. 

Air Gnr. F/Sgt Harold Suthers RCAF was found dead near Broballe among the wreckage of JA967 

All onboard died and rest in Aabenraa cemetery, Jutland, Denmark.

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