Served with 12 Sqn. Possibly shot down by an Me 410 night-fighter flown by Feldwebel Hans Sieben of 3./NJG1. Sgt Harris survived but received severe burns to the face and hands, which the Germans refused to treat. The next morning he was taken to nearby woods and shot in the head, killing him instantly. He was initially buried in the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Königsech, Rheine and reinterred on 25 March 1947, during which a pathology report confirmed a small arms bullet hole to his skull. Two of the four Germans charged with his murder were found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging.