LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Edward Andrew THYNNE
Service No: 414103
Born: Brisbane QLD, 13 May 1913
Enlisted in the RAAF: 20 July 1941
Unit: No. 82 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident: (No. 82 Squadron Mosquito aircraft HR228), India, 19 February 1945, Aged 31 Years
Buried: Gauhati War Cemetery, India
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Edward Thomas Francis and Elizabeth Anne Thynne, of Maleny, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Maleny QLD
Remembered: Panel 131, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 19 February 1945 Mosquito HR228 was detailed to carry out an operational sortie. At 0455 hours the aircraft crashed on take-off at Khumbirgram airfield, 13 miles east north east of Silchar,
India and both the crew members were killed.
The crew members of HR228 were:
Warrant Officer William Francis Flatt (1394193) (RAFVR) (Navigator B/W)
Flying Officer Edward Andrew Thynne (414103) (Pilot)
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, 166/39/474