Sergeant
Gordon
Harris
RAMC
Born in Lewisham, London, England, United Kingdom
Ancestors 
Son of Joseph Harris
and Lily Ethel (Manning) Harris
Brother of
Leslie Joseph Manning Harris, Elgar Thorrold Harris, Elspeth Langley (Harris) King, Vivian Ava Kerslake (Harris) Butcher and Sheila F M (Harris) McGoran
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 21
in Normandy, France
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Biography
Sergeant Gordon Harris RAMC was Killed in Action during World War II.
Gordon was born in 1923. [1] He was the son of Joseph Harris and Lily Manning.
Gordon married Myra Bright in 1943 in Surrey, England.[2] They had one son: Richard Gordon (b. 1944, d. 1985).
Gordon enlisted to fight in the 2nd World War. He attained the rank of Sergeant with the Royal Army Medical Corps. Service Number: 7263936
Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. H.Q. 6th Airborne Division.
He was a Prisoner of War at Stalag XII-D at Waldbreitbach, Rhineland-Palatinate. POW Number: 70486[3]
Tragically he was killed in action at the battle of Normandy, France on D-Day, 6 June 1944. He was aged just 21.
Burial
La Delivrande War Cemetery, Douvres-la-Delivrande, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France. PLOT: IX. A. 9.[4]
Sources
- ↑ "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV3Z-8ZQ2 : 2 October 2014), Gordon Harris, 1923; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006,"
- ↑ "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005." Database. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 20 March 2020. From "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006." Database. findmypast. http://www.findmypast.com : 2012. Citing General Register Office, Southport, England. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV8R-BW9Z
- ↑ UK, British Prisoners of War, 1939-1945 Ancestry.com
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56480920/gordon-harris), memorial page for Sgt Gordon Harris (unknown–6 Jun 1944), Find a Grave Memorial no. 56480920, citing La Delivrande War Cemetery, Douvres-la-Delivrande, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France ; Maintained by War Graves (contributor 6)
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Gordon by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Gordon:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Gordon by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Gordon:
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~0.78%
~6.25%
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