Harry Swinton Lee

Personnel header
Sergeant Harry Swinton Lee
Life dates
17 Aug 1908 - 12 Dec 1985
Postings
Unit or location Role Posted from until
Bishops Waltham Patrol Patrol Leader 05 Mar 1942 03 Dec 1944
National ID
EEFT 16/1
Occupation

Garage proprietor motor engineer & ARP motorcycle messenger

Address
Lee's Garage, Free Street, Bishops Waltham, Hampshire
Other information

Harry Lee was well known as the proprietor of Lee’s Garage in Bishop’s Waltham. He had been a motorcycle messenger for the ARP at the start of the war. In 1929 he had been summoned for speeding in a dangerous manner in Wickham Road. He was working as a plumber at that time.

Harry Lee, Sid Shorney and Sid Lee had all been part of the ARP organisation and so knew each other from before the war.

References

TNA ref WO 199/3391
Hancock data held at B.R.A
1939 Register