{"id":476,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=476"},"modified":"2022-11-15T08:28:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T08:28:24","slug":"holder-norman-lionel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/holder-norman-lionel\/","title":{"rendered":"Holder, Norman Lionel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Norman Lionel Holder<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Navigator, 77 Squadron
Service number 1332814
Died 15 February 1944
Buried Hanover War Cemetery, Germany
Age 22<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headstone Inscription
‘DEVOTED HUSBAND OF ANNETTE. BELOVED SON OF SIDNEY AND JENNY AND BROTHER OF DEREK’<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Norman was born on 3 April 1921 in Croydon to Sidney and Jenny n\u00e9e Manches and had a younger brother Derek. The family name was originally Wacholder and they originated from Poland. Norman’s father Sidney served in the Labour Corps in WW1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In April 1943, Norman married Belgian Annette Freedman in Wandsworth, ten months before he was killed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norman was the navigator on Halifax LL244 which departed RAF Elvington on a night operation to Berlin. All the crew were killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

W\/Op, William Baines, 1051646
Pilot, Hubert Blewett, 1339575
A\/G,Michael Gallagher, 1568955
A\/G, George Albert Sullivan, 1314851
F\/E, Bernard Thorpe, 1506851
A\/B, John Wood, 1528879 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Norman with his wife Annette. Grateful thanks to Jeremy MacMull & Paul Markham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Photo provided by The War Graves Photographic Project \u00a92021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Willesden Jewish Cemetery. Photo provided by The War Graves Photographic Project \u00a92021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hanover War Cemetery. Photo provided by The War Graves Photographic Project \u00a92021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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