Edgar Vincent DEARNALEY DFC

DEARNALEY, Edgar Vincent

Service Number: 414341
Enlisted: 13 September 1941
Last Rank: Pilot Officer
Last Unit: No. 467 Squadron (RAAF)
Born: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 29 October 1921
Home Town: Clayfield, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling: Scots PGC College, Queensland, Australia
Occupation: Bank Clerk
Died: Flying Battle, Germany, 22 June 1944, aged 22 years
Cemetery: Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany
Plot 12, Row E, Grave 6,
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Pilot Officer, 414341
13 Sep 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, 414341, Brisbane
13 Sep 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 414341
22 Jun 1944: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 414341, No. 467 Squadron (RAAF)
29 Jun 1944: Honoured Distinguished Flying Cross, For attacks on a large number of well defended targets

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Edgar Vincent DEARNALEY was born in Brisbane, Queensland on 29th October, 1921

His parents were Edgar Samuel DEARNALEY & Katie Rosina VINCENT who married in Queensland on 27th March, 1912

He enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Froce in Brisbane on 13th September, 1941

Edgar died in a Flying Battle in Germany on 22nd June, 1944 and is buried in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery

He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) in 1944 for attacks on a large number of well defended targets.

His name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial

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Mission Details:

Scholven-Buer - Germany

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Aircraft details

Avro Lancaster III, Serial No. ED532   PO-H

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