LEST WE FORGET
Lieutenant Edward John BICE MC
Service No: 105
Born: East Melbourne VIC, January 1892
Enlisted in the Army: 29 April 1915
Unit: No. 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps
Awarded the Military Cross (MC)
Died: Air Operations, France, 8 August 1918, Aged 26 Years
Buried: Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, Picardie, France
CWGC Additional Information: Son of William Player Bice and Annie Wallace Bice, of “Graystanes,” 32 The Ridge, Canterbury, New Zealand. Born at East Melbourne, Victoria
Place of Association: Camberwell VIC
Remembered: Panel 188, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
One contact-patrol machine (1) – Lieutenants E. J. Bice and J. E. Chapman (observer) – was lost; it was attacked by nine Fokker biplanes near Mericourt about noon and shot down, both officers being killed.
(1) RE8 aircraft C2309
Extract from Cutlack, F.M. (Frederic Morley) The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War 1914-8, Angus and Robertson Ltd Sydney, 1941 – Page 310
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record B2455, BICE E J
National Archives UK RAF Casualty Book AIR 1/969 page 19, 22088
Bibliography:
Muller, P. (Peter) and Hutchinson, J. (John) Secrets Revealed: a brief history of No. 3 Squadron RAAF, Lutheran Publishing House Adelaide SA 5000, 1991
Wrigley, H.N. (Henry Neilsen) (6) The Battle Below: Being the history of No. 3 Squadron AFC, Errol G. Knox Sydney NSW, 1935