Harry Dent

Pilot, 214 (Federated Malay States) Squadron
Service number 109483
Died 31 May 1942
Buried Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany
Age 23

Headstone Inscription
‘DARLING HARRY, WE KNEW YOU WERE MORTAL BUT YOU LIVE IN OUR HEARTS AND MINDS’

Harry was born as Harry Abrahams on 13 January 1919 at 140 Holland Street, Glasgow to Polish father Maurice Abrahams and Harriet nee Lazarus and he had two brothers Stanley and David. Their mother Harriet died when they were young and their father remarried.

Harry’s story will be available soon.

Courtesy Dent Family

Resources

Gallery

  • Harry as a young boy. Courtesy Dent Family
  • Harry second row, 6th from left. Courtesy Dent Family
  • Hampstead News, 19 September 1942
  • Courtesy Dent Family
  • Jewish Chronicle
  • Jewish Chronicle
  • Harry’s Birth Certificate