Mission: Combat Patrol.
Date: 16th August 1940
Unit: 111 Squadron
Type: Hurricane I
Serial: R4193
Code: JU-
Base: Northalt
Location: Marden Kent
Pilot: F/Lt Henry Michael Ferriss
Date: 16th August 1940
Unit: 111 Squadron
Type: Hurricane I
Serial: R4193
Code: JU-
Base: Northalt
Location: Marden Kent
Pilot: F/Lt Henry Michael Ferriss
REASON FOR LOSS
Flight Lieutenant Henry Michael Ferriss joined No 111 Squadron at Northolt. He shared in the probable destruction of a He 111 on 8/4/40 & shared another on the 10th. He was awarded the DFC on 21 June. In a head-on attack over Marden Kent on 16/8 he collided with a Dornier Do 17 bomber from 7/KG77 at 12.45 p.m. and was killed. He crashed on Sheephurst Farm Marden in Hurricane R 4193
Burial details:
Flight Lieutenant Henry Michael Ferriss
Son of Henry Francis and Violet Eleanor Ferriss, of Petts Wood.
St Mary Roman Catholic Churchyard
Chislehurst, London Borough of Bromley, Greater London, England
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