No.745535, Sergeant (Pilot), Edgar James ANDREWS
Aged 22
50 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Killed in Action on Tuesday 15th October 1940
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Born in Newmarket on 4th January 1918 [Newmarket Q1-1918 3b:634] of Edward James and Annie Elizabeth ANDREWS (née Blake) of "The Bull", High Street, Newmarket.
He attended Soham Grammar School from 1929 to 1935 In the 1939 register, at the "Bull Hotel", High Street, Newmarket, were Edgar, a Civil Service mapping assistant in Land Registry; his father Edward J [16-10-1892] hotel proprietor; his mother Annie [18-11-1895]; grandmother Hannah BLAKE [16-11-1858]; his sister Audrey J[19-9-1920] shorthand typist, later CRAIG. No closed records. |
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He took off from RAF Lindholme in Handley Page Hampden X2993 c/s VN-T. Mission, to bomb Berlin, but was shot down by a nightfighter near Kalbe(between
Hannover and Berlin).P/O Davies was also killed but Sgts Hurrell and Lee were taken prisoner and survived the war and eventually were repatriated. They
were shot down by Hauptmann Werner Streib commanding 1/NJG 1 at 03.05 hrs Originally P/O Davies and Edgar were buried in Altmersleben wood cemetery and moved to Berlin in November 1947. |
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