Harry Kleiner

Flight Sergeant Harry Kleiner was an English airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born on 8 June 1911, in Wandsworth, the son of Austrian-born parents Joseph, who was working in incandescent gas light fittings, and Ester Kleiner (née Sonnschein). In 1939, Kleiner was working as a warehouse foreman.Ancestry.com. 1939 England and Wales Register [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018. 
Kleiner, a flight engineer in 57 Squadron, died on 23 May 1943, when his Avro Lancaster (ED970) was shot down over the North Sea, about 40 kilometres west of Egmond aan Zee, by a German night-fighter. Kleiner, Walter Bennett, and Peter Daly were the only crew to be recovered, having been washed ashore.Chorley, W.R. (1992), Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: Aircraft and crew losses: 1943, p. 156.
He is buried in Leeuwarden Jewish Cemetery, The Netherlands.
==Notes==
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Kleiner, Harry, cwgc.org. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
==External Links==
*A Bad Night for 57 Squadron - Lancasters ED970 and ED707 Lost to German Night-fighters (photographs & additional detail, 626-squadron.co.uk. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
Category:1911 births
Category:1943 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:British people of Austrian descent
Category:Buried in the Netherlands
Category:Flight Sergeants