Alfred Harris

Flight Engineer, 106 Squadron
Service number 900315
Died 1 Nov 1944
Buried Bergen-Op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery
Age 24 

Headstone Inscription
‘DEEPLY MOURNED BY HIS WIFE, MOTHER, FATHER AND BROTHER. ALWAYS IN OUR MEMORY’

Alfred was the son of Hyman and Rose née Phillips. Husband of Kate née Blom of Middlesex.

Alfie served in the Middle East as a flight rigger attached to the 8th Army before he became a flight engineer in the RAF.

I am grateful to Ben Goossens for supplying further information and his website on Lancaster PB303. His website can be found on the link. www.lancaster-pb303.nl.

Please click on the links below to learn more about Alfie’s life.

Alfie & Kate’s Wedding 1944

Resources

Alfie’s Story by his niece EveDownload
Alfie’s earlylifeDownload
Alfred Harris and Ben GoosensDownload
OperationDownload
Witness to the crashDownload
Ceremony at the Monument 1 November 2019Download
Memorial Service video linkDownload

Gallery

  • Kate & Alfie
  • Crew of PB303, Alfie front row, far right
  • Alfie, third on right
  • Alfie’s pay book
  • 1939 Register
  • Alfie & Kate marriage certificate
  • Alfie & Kate marriage certificate
  • Harry, Alfie, Kate & Cissie, Kate’s sister
  • RAF Metheringham Operation Book
  • PB303 Crash site
  • Grave marker 1949
  • Dutch Commemoration Service 1949
  • Dutch Commemoration Service 1949
  • Graves 1949
  • Grave Adoption Certificate
  • Jane Goosens & Kate Harris
  • Memorial unveiling 1 Nov 2019
  • Alfie on horseback
  • Alfie back row on right
  • Alfie
  • Alfie centre
  • Rommel
  • Jerusalem
  • Jerusalem