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Sergeant (Air Gnr.) Frank John Edwards

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Sergeant (Air Gnr.) Frank John Edwards

Birth
Death
13 Jan 1943
Hoog Soeren, Apeldoorn Municipality, Gelderland, Netherlands
Burial
Ugchelen, Apeldoorn Municipality, Gelderland, Netherlands GPS-Latitude: 52.1777348, Longitude: 5.9296974
Plot
Plot 4. Grave 127.
Memorial ID
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Son of Bertram Leonard Edwards, and of Dorothy Helenah Marie Edwards, of West Molesey, Surrey.

Shot down by night fighter pilot Major Werner Streib of the Stab I./NJG 1, flying Bf 110 'G9+BB' from Venlo airfield. The Lancaster crashed into a moor in between Hoog Soeren and Assel.

106 Squadron
Departed: RAF Syerston
Target: Essen
Registration: R5680
Call Sign: ZN-T
Takeoff time: 16:30

Crew:
Pilot F/Lt. E.F.G. Healey DFC DFM 116140
Flight engineer Sgt. A. Dunbar 1002583
Navigator F/O. J.R. Pennington DFC 118726
Bomb aimer P/O. D.M. Crozier DFM J/16383
Wo ag F/O. M.H. Lumley 128373
Air gunner Sgt. F.J. Edwards 1331491
Air gunner Sgt. C.H. Jurgensen 1476365
Son of Bertram Leonard Edwards, and of Dorothy Helenah Marie Edwards, of West Molesey, Surrey.

Shot down by night fighter pilot Major Werner Streib of the Stab I./NJG 1, flying Bf 110 'G9+BB' from Venlo airfield. The Lancaster crashed into a moor in between Hoog Soeren and Assel.

106 Squadron
Departed: RAF Syerston
Target: Essen
Registration: R5680
Call Sign: ZN-T
Takeoff time: 16:30

Crew:
Pilot F/Lt. E.F.G. Healey DFC DFM 116140
Flight engineer Sgt. A. Dunbar 1002583
Navigator F/O. J.R. Pennington DFC 118726
Bomb aimer P/O. D.M. Crozier DFM J/16383
Wo ag F/O. M.H. Lumley 128373
Air gunner Sgt. F.J. Edwards 1331491
Air gunner Sgt. C.H. Jurgensen 1476365

Inscription

1331491 Sergeant
F.J. Edwards
Air Gunner
Royal Air Force
13th January 1943 Age 20

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF MY DEAR SON
HE RESTS IN PEACE
WE WILL MEET AGAIN. MOTHER

Gravesite Details

1331491


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