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In memory of:

Flying Officer Lloyd Albert Hannah

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Military service

Service number: J/87007
Age: 26
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 625 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth: June 18, 1918
Death: October 14, 1944 Lincolnshire, England

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Sec. G. Row A. Grave 11.
Additional information

Son of Allan and Mary Hannah of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. Husband of Margaret Lorene (Knox) Hannah of Tuxford, Saskatchewan.

Brother of Flying Officer Harold Allan Hannah, who died while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force. Out of the nine Hannah siblings, four sons and one daughter served with the Canadian forces during the Second World War.

Shortly after a take-off, Lloyd Hannah saved the lives of six crew members from an engine fire aboard his Lancaster bomber. Lloyd held the plane steady while the crew bailed out and then flew the aircraft away from a village. He was killed as the plane crashed.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 327 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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Service record(s)

Digitized personnel record available through Library and Archives Canada.

 

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