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  Clyde Roderick Harnish
 
 
 
  Clyde Roderick Harnish
  Pilot Officer
  J/87477
   
  101 RAF Squadron, 
  Royal Canadian Air Force
  August 25, 1918
  Hubbards, Halifax Co., NS
  November 5, 1941
  Halifax, NS
  Hubbards, NS
  Farmer
  Single
  Presbyterian
  Ruth Harnish (Mother)
  March 31, 1944
  26
  Runnymede Memorial
  
  
  Panel 250
  Commemorated on page 328 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
   Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on July 16
   Pilot Officer Harnish was the son of Guy P. and Ruth G. Harnish, and brother of Roy Harnish, of 
  Hubbards, NS.  
  Between March 20, 1941 and November 4, 1941 Clyde Harnish completed basic military training 
  at Yarmouth NS, and advanced training at Aldershot, NS.  On joining the RCAF he trained in Canada 
  going overseas in 1943. 
  Lancaster M.E. 618 of RAF 101 Squadron and its crew of eight were detailed for an attack on 
  Nurenburg and took off at 22:55 on March 30, 1944 and failed to return to base.  In 1944 the RAF 
  learned that five members of the crew were prisoners of war and that two other members of the crew, 
  unidentified, were recovered from the wreckage of the plane and buried at Simmershausen.  Pilot 
  Officer Harnish remained unaccounted for; however, it was confirmed that he was still in the aircraft 
  when it crashed and burned.  He has no known grave and his name is listed on the Runnymede 
  Memorial.