N H Smith
Н. Х. Смит
d. 1941
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Sergeant N H Smith served with No. 81 Squadron RAF, one of the two squadrons that formed No. 151 Wing — a wing sent to Vaenga, near Murmansk, in 1941 to help the Soviet Union with the air defence of Murmansk. Flying Hurricane Z3476, he was shot down in aerial combat near Murmansk on 12 September 1941 and killed. Imperial War Museums records him as the first RAF casualty in Russia. He was buried on 14 September at a village overlooking the Kola Inlet, and his grave is recorded at the Russian naval cemetery at Severomorsk (Vaenga). One secondary account gives his age as 18; the archival record does not state it. His forenames are not established by the sources consulted — the Air Ministry casualty file records only the initials N H.
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- Severomorsk (Vaenga) Cemetery — Commonwealth war graves in the Soviet Arctic
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