Harry was born in 1924 in Holborn, London to Alfred and Hannah née Silverstone and had one sister Rita. Their father Alfred worked as a ladies tailor and volunteered as an ARP Warden in Bethnal Green, and their mother Hannah was the owner of a tobacconist shop. When Harry was nineteen he married Debbe Fleischer in 1943 in Hackney.

Harry was an air gunner in Lancaster PB802 which departed from RAF Mildenhall on a bombing and cross country training exercise. The aircraft dived into the ground 2130 hrs at Harling, about 8 miles ENE of Thetford, Norfolk. All the crew were killed.

Pilot, John Henry Crone, RAAF 419521
F/E, Richard Devlin, 1881244
Nav, George Russell Lake, 1183934
A/B, Leonard Richard Wilkins, 1801112
W/Op, Lex Maitland Riordan, RAAF 426468
A/G, William Ernest Fuller, 176263
Harry Harold Freedman