Service Details
Name:
 EDWARDS
Given Name:
 GORDON HILTON
Initials:
 G H
Service No:
 11208V
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 112 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1945-07-26
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Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Mustang IVa KM216, after practice strafing. They flew into a cloud covered mountain top in a box valley somewhere between Trento and Lake Iseo, crashed into the mountain called Care Alto, a few remains of aircraft are still there
Additional
Information:
Son of Hilton David and Florence Alice Edwards, of Peddie, Cape Province, South Africa. On Cathcart War Memorial
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 PADUA WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 I. A. 7.

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