Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Memorial – Flying Officer Harry Lancaster Humphries is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

Memorial – Flying Officer Harry Lancaster Humphries is also 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

Photo of HARRY LANCASTER HUMPHRIES – Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

Grave Marker – Photo courtesy of Rich Allenby www.allenby.info/aircraft/planes/42/dt525.html for full story. Crash 78 (RAF) Sqdn Halifax aircraft based at Linton-on- Ouse, Yorkshire. On the 6th of November 1942 the airmen on board this aircraft took off from Linton on Ouse at 18.20hrs. They were tasked with mine laying in the Nectarine area, to the north of the Frisian's. On board was pretty much a scratch crew, four regular crew flew with three others not usually in this settled crew. They dropped their mines in the area ordered to and made for home. On this leg they drifted slightly too far south and came in over the coast in the Hull area. With visibilty poor they became lost and flew into high ground above Wass village on the southern edge of the North Yorkshire Moors, on Byland Moor at 22.30hrs... The aircraft crashed into a field and then trees not far from Lund Farm. Three of the crew were killed in the crash. The pilot escaped with minor injuries. He was RCAF Sgt. R. G. Mills. Two members of the RAF were killed.