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Sergeant Pilot Horatio H. Morris RAF

 
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 6:45 pm    Post subject: Sergeant Pilot Horatio H. Morris RAF Reply with quote

The following memorial is housed within Giffnock Park Church, Ravenscliffe Road, Giffnock.




There are two identical memorial chairs both are inscribed as follows:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY
OF SERGEANT PILOT HORATIO H. MORRIS,
THE ROYAL AIR FORCE KILLED ON SERVICE, JUNE 1942
PER ARDUA AD ASTRA
(“Through Adversity to the Stars”) is the motto of the Royal Air Force and other Commonwealth Air Forces such as the RAAF, RNZAF.

John Houston
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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 4:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

He was lost on a test flight. He was serving in Coastal Command for which no book has yet been published of losses in 1942.

His photograph is on the thread for the memorial for Woodside Secondary School at http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-ftopic8328-60.html

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