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-WikipediaLAN-HALLancaster 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.