In Memory Of

SMITH, EDWARD BOUCHER

Service Details
Age:
 22
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 778398
Rank:
 Sergeant
Unit:
 106 Sqdn.
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death:
 1941-10-27
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, crew of Hampden AD785 took off from Coningsby at 18.10hrs on 26th October 1941, the aircraft was one of 115 aircraft tasked with bombing shipyards in Hamburg area at two aiming points. Returning crews later reported that good bombing was possible in the moonlight but this Hampden appears to have flown off track on the return leg and came in over the Yorkshire coast somewhere near Scarborough. The aircraft exploded in mid-air at around 01.00hrs on 27th October 1941 over the eastern side of the North Yorkshire Moors and wreckage fell to the ground at a steep angle where upon it caught fire
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Row 65. Grave 1280.
Cemetery:
 CONINGSBY CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Lincolnshire
Country:
 United Kingdom
Additional Information
Son of Sydney Ward Smith and Joyce Elizabeth Smith, of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.