LEST WE FORGET
Squadron Leader Frank Leslie Herbert EDDISON DFC
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 39377 (RAF)
Born: Date, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 214 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Stradishall
Died: Air Operations: (No. 214 Squadron Wellington IC aircraft R1226), Netherlands, 9 May 1941, Aged 30 Years
Buried: Bergen-Op-Zoom War Cemetery, Noord Brabant, Netherlands
CWGC Additional Information: Son of W. H. and Marion Eddison; husband of Jill Eddison
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Brother of Flight Lieutenant Edward Dalkeith Eddison (563) (RAAF) and Private Jack Osbaldeston Eddison (NX60320)
Wellington R1226 took off from Stradishall at 2210 hours to attack Hamburg. The aircraft crashed at Anna Paulowna (Noord Holland), 12 km SE of Den Helder and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of R1226 were:
Squadron Leader Frank Leslie Herbert Eddison DFC (39377) (RAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant John Holt (749319) (RAFVR) (Observer)
Pilot Officer Norman Mervyn Kebbell Kirkcaldie (401315) (RNZAF) (Second Pilot)
Sergeant Cyril Paton (904673) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Kennedy Tait (974125) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Arnot Flaws Wilson (935907) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
References:
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll On-Line Records
Chorley W R, Royal Air Force Bomber Command losses of the Second World War, Volume 2 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1941, Midland Counties Publications, Leicester, 1994
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record AWM65 1162