LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Edgar Frederick JONES
Service No: 423786
Born: Pantyffynnon, Wales, 2 October 1911
Enlisted in the RAAF: 18 July 1942 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 51 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Snaith
Died: Air Operations: (No. 51 Squadron Halifax aircraft LW546), North West Europe, 6 August 1944, Aged 32 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of William and Mary Ann Jones; husband of Olga Isolene Jones, of Kingsgrove, New South Wales, Australia. Accountant A.A.A.
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 260, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 124, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1920 hours on 6 August, 1944 Halifax LW546 took off from Snaith to attack the railway centre at Hazebrouck, France. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it did not return to base. Following post war enquiries and investigations, it was recorded in 1949 that the missing crew members had no known graves.
The crew members of LW546 were:
Sergeant Robert Baptist (3040779) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Flight Lieutenant George Brown (413374) (RNZAF) (Pilot)
Flying Officer Sidney Harry Coleman (147097) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Pilot Officer Aubrey Francis Cowling (176488) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Flight Sergeant Ernest William Donkin (542206) (RAF) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Sergeant William Leonard Healey (1876797) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Flight Sergeant Edgar Frederick Jones (423786) (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/21/183