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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.