Service Number: H402517
Canadian Chaplain Service
Honourary Captain
Chaplain 4th Class
Attached to the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion
He was Son of Alfred and Blanche Clarinda Harris, of Solihull, Warwickshire, England
Two of his older brothers were killed in action during WWI ... Lance Corporal Joseph Edgar Harris who was with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1st/5th Bn. and died on July 18, 1916 and Lance Corporal Charles Rudolph Harris with the Coldstream Guards, 2nd Bn. who died on Aug. 27, 1918.
He is commemorated on page 329 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. There is a Tribute to him on the Roll Call of Honour website at ...
http://www.honourthem.ca/masterDetail.cfm?ID=683
There is also a Memorial for him on the Fallen Heroes of Normandy website at ... http://www.fallenheroesofnormandy.org/Servicemen/Detail/16183
Note:
Details of his death are uncertain but some information indicated that he was killed when parachuting from a plane that was hit by enemy fire and his parachute became entangled with another and he hit the ground too hard.
Links to his brothers memorials:
Lance Colporal Joseph Edgar Harris
Corporal Charles Rudolph Harris
Canadian Chaplain Service
Honourary Captain
Chaplain 4th Class
Attached to the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion
He was Son of Alfred and Blanche Clarinda Harris, of Solihull, Warwickshire, England
Two of his older brothers were killed in action during WWI ... Lance Corporal Joseph Edgar Harris who was with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1st/5th Bn. and died on July 18, 1916 and Lance Corporal Charles Rudolph Harris with the Coldstream Guards, 2nd Bn. who died on Aug. 27, 1918.
He is commemorated on page 329 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. There is a Tribute to him on the Roll Call of Honour website at ...
http://www.honourthem.ca/masterDetail.cfm?ID=683
There is also a Memorial for him on the Fallen Heroes of Normandy website at ... http://www.fallenheroesofnormandy.org/Servicemen/Detail/16183
Note:
Details of his death are uncertain but some information indicated that he was killed when parachuting from a plane that was hit by enemy fire and his parachute became entangled with another and he hit the ground too hard.
Links to his brothers memorials:
Lance Colporal Joseph Edgar Harris
Corporal Charles Rudolph Harris
Service Number: H402517
Canadian Chaplain Service
Honourary Captain
Chaplain 4th Class
Attached to the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion
He was Son of Alfred and Blanche Clarinda Harris, of Solihull, Warwickshire, England
Two of his older brothers were killed in action during WWI ... Lance Corporal Joseph Edgar Harris who was with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1st/5th Bn. and died on July 18, 1916 and Lance Corporal Charles Rudolph Harris with the Coldstream Guards, 2nd Bn. who died on Aug. 27, 1918.
He is commemorated on page 329 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. There is a Tribute to him on the Roll Call of Honour website at ...
http://www.honourthem.ca/masterDetail.cfm?ID=683
There is also a Memorial for him on the Fallen Heroes of Normandy website at ... http://www.fallenheroesofnormandy.org/Servicemen/Detail/16183
Note:
Details of his death are uncertain but some information indicated that he was killed when parachuting from a plane that was hit by enemy fire and his parachute became entangled with another and he hit the ground too hard.
Links to his brothers memorials:
Lance Colporal Joseph Edgar Harris
Corporal Charles Rudolph Harris
Canadian Chaplain Service
Honourary Captain
Chaplain 4th Class
Attached to the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion
He was Son of Alfred and Blanche Clarinda Harris, of Solihull, Warwickshire, England
Two of his older brothers were killed in action during WWI ... Lance Corporal Joseph Edgar Harris who was with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1st/5th Bn. and died on July 18, 1916 and Lance Corporal Charles Rudolph Harris with the Coldstream Guards, 2nd Bn. who died on Aug. 27, 1918.
He is commemorated on page 329 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. There is a Tribute to him on the Roll Call of Honour website at ...
http://www.honourthem.ca/masterDetail.cfm?ID=683
There is also a Memorial for him on the Fallen Heroes of Normandy website at ... http://www.fallenheroesofnormandy.org/Servicemen/Detail/16183
Note:
Details of his death are uncertain but some information indicated that he was killed when parachuting from a plane that was hit by enemy fire and his parachute became entangled with another and he hit the ground too hard.
Links to his brothers memorials:
Lance Colporal Joseph Edgar Harris
Corporal Charles Rudolph Harris
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