Flying Officer Alan Haworth,

214 Squadron, Royal Air Force.

Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in the Supplement to the London Gazette of 12 January 1943.

Awarded a bar to his Distinguished Flying Cross in the Supplement to the London Gazette of 1944.

The Burnley Express of 17 January 1945 reported:-

Gains Bar to D.F.C.

Flight-Lieut. Alan Haworth, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Haworth, of 173, Accrington Road, Burnley, has received a bar to his D.F.C.
Joining the R.A.F. as a volunteer in November, 1940, Flight-Lieut. Haworth received his training in Southern Rhodesia, where he gained his observer's "wing." He was promoted to pilot officer when he returned to this country early in 1942. About six months later he was promoted to flying officer, and was made flight lieutenant in January last year. In January, 1943, he was awarded the D.F.C.
An old boy of St. Mary Magdalene's School and the Grammar School, he was employed by the Post Office Savings Bank in London before joining the R.A.F.

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