Lloyd George EDMONDS

EDMONDS, Lloyd George

    Service Numbers: S34229, 416941
    Enlisted: 21 December 1939
    Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
    Last Unit: Operational Training Units (RAF)
    Born: Strathalbyn, South Australia, 6 November 1918
    Home Town: Unley, Unley, South Australia
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Not yet discovered
    Died: Accidental Aircrash, Peak District, England, United Kingdom, 21 January 1944, aged 25 years
    Cemetery: Chester (Blacon) Cemetery, Chester, England
    Section A, Grave 368., Blacon Cemetery, Chester, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
    Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial
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    World War 2 Service

    21 Dec 1939: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, S34229
    21 Dec 1939: Enlisted Private, S34229, 3rd Field Ambulance, Unley, South Australia
    22 Dec 1939: Involvement Corporal, S34229, 3rd Field Ambulance
    8 Nov 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 416941
    8 Nov 1941: Enlisted 416941, Adelaide, South Australia
    9 Nov 1941: Involvement 416941, Empire Air Training Scheme
    21 Jan 1944: Involvement Flight Sergeant, 416941, Operational Training Units (RAF), Empire Air Training Scheme
    Date unknown: Involvement

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    Biography

    Flight Sergeant Edmonds was posted to 27 Operational Training Unit, RAF, in England, training for D-Day.  He was the pilot of Vickers Wellington Mk III BJ652 which crashed in the Peak District during a night training exercise, killing all six RAAF members of the crew, including wireless operator F. Sgt William Thomas Barnes of Kingscote, South Australia

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