Martin Hartley
Attended Queen Elizabeth School from 1934 to 1939. He was a keen member of the cricket and football teams.
Before joining the RAF he was employed as a finance clerk of Sutton Council Offices.
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His parents were Joseph Percy and Hannah Elizabeth Hartley of The Dairy, Priestic Road, Sutton in Ashfield. Joseph had fought with the Grenadier Guards in WW1 and had been invalided out due to wounds.
Martin left his father £285 6s 8d in his will.
Sgt Martin Hartly was missing from operations over Berlin on the night of 15/16th February 1944. It was later learnt that the aircraft was brought down near Ludorf. On 18th July 1944 his body was recovered from the beach at Muritz and he was buried in the Russian Cemetery at Retzow Germany.
Sgt Hartley was a Bomb Aimer and Air Gunner and had a very large number of flights to his credit in 1943-1944. Among the operations listed are Essen, Mannheim Nurmberg, Leverkusen, Berlin, Hanover, Bochum, Munich, Kassel, Stuttgart, Modane, Dusseldorf and Magdeburg.
Lancaster Bomber DVV376 flying from Skellingthorpe, Lincs.
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