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HARVEY, Alfred

Aircraft Information
Aircraft Handley Page Halifax III
Serial Number MZ647
Markings DY-R
Memorial information
Burial/Memorial Country Germany
Burial/Memorial Place Rheinberg War Cemetery
Grave Reference Coll. grave 8. E. 7-11..
Epitaph
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase 2
Panel Number 178
Enlistment information
Service Number 423726
Service Royal Australian Air Force
Group 4
Squadron 102 (Ceylon)
Trade Air Gunner
Country of origin if different Australia
Last Operation information
Start Date 12-08-1944
End Date 13-08-1944
Takeoff Station Pocklington
Day/Night raid Night
Operation Russelsheim to bomb the Opel motor factory, with normal PFF marking (unlike the concurrent Braunschweig raid). 297 aircraft, 20 losses (6.7%). Only slight damage was inflicted with may of the bombs falling in open countryside.
Reason for Loss Shot down by a night fighter flown by Uffz. Gustav Sarzio of 6./NJG1, 33km North of Kaiserslautern altitude 5,000m at 00:21, and crashed 300m north of Rehborn Railway Station at about 0100 hours on 13 August 1944. All of the crew were initially buried in Rehborn cemetery and subsequently moved to Reheinberg War Cemetery. It was unfortunately not possible to identify each of the bodies individually, hence they are buried in a collective grave.