Service number:

1006148 (NCO)/121074 (Officer)

Nationality:

British

Born in Malvern, educated at King’s Norton Grammar School.
After the war Harold Lea flew commercially

? Flight Sergeant
28 April, 1942: Pilof Officer on Probation (emergency)
2 October, r 1942: Flying Officer on Probation (war sub)
28 April, 1944: FLight Lieutenant (war sub)

19 February, 1949: Appointment to commission as Flying Officer in the RAFVR retaing rank as Flight Lieutenant
1 March, 1951: Flight Lieutenant
19 February, 1954: Commission relinquished

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Flight Lieutenant

Unit:

No. 127 Squadron, Royal Air Force

Awarded on:

June 22nd, 1945

Citation:
"This officer has set a fine example of devotion to duty over a long period of operational flying. He has completed a large number of sorties including many attacks against heavily defended targets. In operations against the enemy's railway systems, Flight Lieutenant Lea has assisted in the destruction of five locomotives. He has at all times proved himself to be a keen and resourceful pilot."

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