Edward Verner SHAW
- Extended Description
- Edmund Verner SHAW. Flight Sergeant, Pilot 748518 Royal Air Force (VR). of No. 21 Operational Training Unit (OUT) at RAF Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire Born 1920 to Edmund and Mary Shaw of 5 Earlswood Road, Belfast. He was killed on active service 21 May 1942 aged 22 when his Avro Anson N5259 bomber with a crew of five was a daytime low-level cross-country training flight when plane flew into high tension cables near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. The plane came down and crashed near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire killing Sergeant Shaw and Sergeant, Observer 656934 Ernest Brocklebank, the others survived.
At rest in Plot D4, Grave 105 Dundonald Cemetery, Dundonald, Northern Ireland
Will, PRONI -
Shaw Edward Verner of 5 Earlswood Road Belfast flight sergeant R.A.F. died 21 May 1942 at R.A.F. Station Hospital Rissington Administration Belfast 27 October to Edmund Shaw traveller. Effects £186 16s. 3d.
Edmund Verner Shaw - WartimeNI
Flight Sergeant Edmund Verner Shaw died on 21st May 1942 when his Avro Anson bomber of the RAF's No. 21 OTU came down near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.
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