In Memory Of

EDWARDS, JEFFREY HUGH

Service Details
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 42052
Rank:
 Flight Lieutenant
Unit:
 7 Sqdn.
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force
Date of Death:
 1942-03-28
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Stirling I W7501, shot down by night fighter pilot Oblt Ludwig Becker of the 6./NJG 2, flying a Do 215 B-5 or Bf 110 from Leeuwarden airfield on operational flight over Lubeck, Germany. Target was the Altstadt which comprised mainly timbered houses, so half of the 400 tons of bombs were incendiary devices. 62% of all dwelling in Lubeck were either destroyed or badly damaged - mainly residential. Believed crashed into the North Sea off the Frisian Islands
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Panel 65.
Cemetery:
 RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 Surrey
Country:
 United Kingdom
Additional Information
Son of William Henry Hinchcliffe Edwards and Lily Edwards, of Surrey. On war memorial for King Edward VII School, Johannesburg.