Seeking info on RCAF casualty

[Brian George]

This may be a bit out of line for this forum, but I'll go for it anyway.

I'm looking for information concerning the following person:

R 132700

Harvey, Benjamin Campbell

KIA 3/30/43

Flight Sgt. (Air Gunner) RCAF

I've been to the CWGC website, and found the basic info. What I would like to know is how he died, squadron he belonged to, that sort of thing.

I don't have any medals or anything like that. It's just a matter of curiosity. You see, my father was sexton of the cemeteries in the town that I grew up in. I used to work in the summer taking care of the grass, etc, and I used to push my mower past the Harvey family grave marker. It mentions that he was in the RCAF, and was KIA, that's it. I just wonder about the poor fellow's fate. The marker was stuffed in a corner of one of the more remote cemeteries in town. I think we were the only people to visit it on a regular basis,

It's one of those things that has been nagging at me for close to 20 years.

Brian

[Ed Tainton]

Harvey

Info: Flight Sgt Benjamin Campbell Harvey (AG) R 132700 From Medford, Massachusetts, USA. Killed Mar.30/43 age 22 # 1483 Flight Wellington aircraft # Z 1747 had the starboard mainplane detatch in flight and crashed north of Barton, near RAF Station, Marham. Sgt. M.R. Langdale-Hunt (RNZAF) and five other airmen, not Canadians, were also killed.