Newspaper cutting - Leicester and Loughborough officers awarded DFC

Newspaper cutting - Leicester and Loughborough officers awarded DFC

Mentions Pilot Officer Harry Charles Tabony and Pilot Officer Harold Ernest Wakefield.

1944-10

One newspaper cutting

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Pilot Officer Harold Ernest Wakefield, RAFVR, No. 51 Squadron, who comes from Leicester, was born in 1923 in Derbyshire. He was educated at Wyggeston [sic] School. He enlisted for wireless operator in 1942, and was commissioned in 1944.