Lloyd George EDMONDS

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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 Income Tax Dept of SA Roll of Honour, Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial

World War 2 Service

21 Dec 1939:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (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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