Gordon James Edwards Updated: 10 MAR 2021
Airman: e777051.htm Surname: Edwards
Init: G J Rank: P/O Service: RAF Sqdn: 405
P_link: p375.htm Plane: LAN PB527 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea
Crash_d: d160944 Buried_d: e777 C_link: e777.htm At_Next: NO KNOWN
"Under en mission til Kiel den 16.
september 1944 nedstyrtede et "Lancaster" fly i Nordsøen. Hele besætningen
omkom." (FAF) Se p375MACR.
Pilot Officer Gordon James Edwards, 23 år,
var søn af Bertram og Mary Jane Edwards, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, United
Kingdom.
Hæderstegn: DFC, Distinguished Flying Cross.
Hans navn er
på Panel 211 på the Runnymede Memorial blandt mere end 20.000 navne på flyvere,
der ikke har en kendt grav. (Kilde: CWGC)
1 mand er begravet i Sønderho, 1 i Esbjerg og 5 har ikke nogen kendt grav.
Se Lancaster fotos og Archive Report med detaljer og fotos. 7 flyvere.
This Lancaster crashed in the North Sea
on 16 September, 1944 during a bombing raid on
Kiel. All of the crew perished. (Source:
FAF)
See p375MACR.
Pilot Officer Gordon James Edwards, 23,
was the son of Bertram and Mary Jane Edwards, of Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire,
United Kingdom.
Awards: DFC, the
Distinguished Flying Cross.
He is commemorated on the
Runnymede Memorial, Panel 211, among more than 20,000
airmen who have no known grave. (Source:
CWGC)
He
is remembered on
The Walls of Names at the
International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, Panel 159.
1 airman is buried in Sønderho, 1 in Esbjerg and 5 have no known grave.
See
No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons *
No. 405 (City of Vancouver) Squadron RCAF *
405 Squadron Association *
No. 405 Squadron RAF
Pathfinders
See also Lancaster Photos *
Lancaster -
Bomber Command Museum of
Canada *
Avro 683
Lancaster Mk X - IWM
Duxford
Lancaster-Wikipedia * LAN-HAL *
Lancaster photos
Lancaster III PB527 LQ-K
took off from
RAF Gransden
Lodge at 22.35 hrs on 15 SEP 1944. (Source:
Aircrew Remembered
has
this and Archive
Report.)
7 airmen.