Noel Lagna

Sergeant Mario Noel Lagna was an English airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born in 1917, in London, the son of Italian-born Fortunato and Ethel (née Ethell), of Gillingham.
Lagna, serving as an air gunner in 7 Squadron, died on 26 May 1943, when his Short Stirling (EF361) bomber was caught in the explosion of a Handley Page Halifax, of 77 Squadron, and subsequently crashed near to Julich with the loss of its seven-man crew. The aircraft had been engaged on an operation against Dusseldorf.Chorley, W.R. (1992), Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: Aircraft and crew losses: 1943, p. 160.
He is buried in Rheinberg War Cemetery.
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==References==
*Lagna, Noel, cwgc.org. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
Category:1917 births
Category:1943 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Category:British people of Italian descent
Category:Buried in Germany
Category:Sergeants