In Memory Of

WELBY, EDWARD HUGH EARLE

Service Details
Age:
 26
Date of Birth:
 1915-08-02
Service No:
 778255
Rank:
 Sergeant
Unit:
 266 Sqdn.
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death:
 1942-06-13
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Typhoon IA R7618, aircraft accident near Ely, Cambridgeshire
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Row B. Grave 11.
Cemetery:
 WHITTLESFORD (SS. MARY AND ANDREW) CHURCHYARD
Localitly:
 Cambridgeshire
Country:
 United Kingdom
Additional Information
Son of Hugh Earle Welby and Evelyn Borradaile Welby, of Essex Vale, Southern Rhodesia. Entered Lloyd House in September 1927. On leaving school in August 1934, he went mining and was at the Bushtick Mine when he joined the R.A.F. in July 1940. School Record : House- Prefect, 1933; school Prefect, 1934; Sergeant in Cadet ,corps, 1934; Rugger 1st XV, 1932-34 (Captain and Colours, 1934); Cricket 1st XI, 1934. Took an active and prominent part in athletics, swimming, boxing and Dramatic Society: Junior Certificate, 1932. On Plumtree School Roll of Honour