Edward Samuel Hunt
Memorial: Old Sodbury - St John the Baptist Church
Regiment: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Medals: 1939–45 Star, War Medal 1939–1945
Rank and number: Sergeant 1184062
Parents: Josiah Edward and Beatrice Florence Hunt
Home address: Filton, Bristol Edward - Moved to High Street Oxford
Pre-war occupation: Provision shop assistant for Sainsbury in Oxford
Date of birth: 17/03/1921
Date of death: 14/07/1942
Buried/Commemorated at: St. John the Baptist Churchyard (s. e. of church), Old Sodbury, Bristol
Age: 21
Further information:
142nd Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Edward joined up in 1940 and served as a gunner. During a bombing operation against Duisburg in Germany his Wellington bomber took off from Grimsby at 00.15 and lost engine power in bad weather. It crashed in a forced landing at 00.59 in Diss, Norfolk, killing Edward and all of the rest of the crew apart from the rear gunner.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
http://www.aviationarchaeology.org.uk/marg/142sqn_losses.htm
The Tewkesbury Register, and Agricultural Gazette. 18 July 1942