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Flying Officer Harry Harold Freedman was an English airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.

He was born in 1924, in Holborn, the son of Alfred and Hannah Freedman (née Silverstone).

Freedman, serving as an air gunner in 15 Squadron, died on 17 January 1945, when his Avro Lancaster (PB802) crashed at Harling, with the loss of its seven crew. The aircraft's crew had been conducting a bombing and cross-country exercise.[1]

He is buried in Marlow Road Jewish Cemetery, East Ham.

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  1. Chorley, W.R. (1992), Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: Aircraft and crew losses: 1945, p. 53.

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