Roy Cecil EDWARDS

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EDWARDS, Roy Cecil

Service Number:	440278
Enlisted:	3 December 1943
Last Rank:	Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit:	No. 1 Bombing and Air Gunnery School / No. 1 Air Observers School / Evans Head
Born:	Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 15 September 1920
Home Town:	Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland
Schooling:	Newton State School, Toowoomba Grammar School and Toowoomba Technical College, Queensland, Australia
Occupation:	Cadet Engineer/Draughtsman Toowoomba Foundry
Died:	Flying Accident, Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia, 11 September 1944, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	Evans Head War Cemetery, NSW Plot B Row B Grave 3.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Newtown State School Honour Roll, Newtown State School War Memorial, Toowoomba Grammar School WW2 Honour Board, Toowoomba P.A.F.S.O.A. Beaconsfield Lodge No 15, Toowoomba Roll of Honour WW2, Toowoomba WW2 Roll of Honour Book, Toowoomba War Memorial (Mothers' Memorial)

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement 440278
3 Dec 1943:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 440278, No. 1 Bombing and Air Gunnery School / No. 1 Air Observers School / Evans Head
3 Dec 1943:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 440278
11 Sep 1944:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 440278, No. 1 Bombing and Air Gunnery School / No. 1 Air Observers School / Evans Head

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

Son of Frank Edwards and Maggie Birdsall Edwards, of Toowoomba, Queensland

Leading Aircraftman Roy Edwards was one of four crew members and a female passenger of a No. 1 Air Observation School Anson Aircraft LT781 that departed the Royal Australian Air Force Base at Evans Head in New South Wales on a non-operational navigational exercise. The aircraft crashed at Glen Innes in New South Wales on 11th September 1944 at 0746 hours when its pilot, disobeying flying instructions, struck a shed whilst low flying causing it to disintegrate and it crashed on a house south west of the town and caught alight.

Avro Anson LT781 of Number 1 Air Observer School crashed near Glen Innes, NSW killing all on board: ERVIN, William John (LAC) 431474 / OSBORNE, William Henry (Pilot Officer) 411513 / EDWARDS, Roy Cecil (LAC) 440278 / NOBLE, James Ian Brisbane (Flight Sergeant) 36496 / McCORMACK, Joan Mary (Sergeant) 92527 of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force

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