LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Edwin EVERS
Service No: 443289
Born: Rochdale NSW, 20 May 1923
Enlisted in the RAAF: 7 October 1943
Unit: No. 4 (Coastal) Operational Training School (RAF)
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 4 (Coastal) Operational Training School Sunderland aircraft W6009), Scotland, 14 January 1945, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of William Lloyd Mason Evers and of Margaret May Evers, of Molong, New South Wales, Australia.
Roll of Honour: Molong NSW
Remembered: Panel 284, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 122, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Brother of Leading Aircraftman Alfred Lloyd Evers (72542)
On the 14th January 1945, Sunderland W6009 took off from RAF Station Alness, Ross-Shire Scotland, on a non-operational armament training exercise. The aircraft crashed off shore near Ferrytown, Doronach Firth, Scotland at 1340 hours..
The crew members of W6009 were:
Pilot Officer Ernest Neil Bugg (436397) Seriously injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 13 December 1945
Flying Officer Alan Woodhouse Crompton (429929) (Pilot) Seriously injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 12 December 1945
Flight Sergeant Edwin Evers (443289) (Air Gunner) Missing
Sergeant William James Wesley Freudenstein (33805) Seriously injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 23 July 1945
Flight Sergeant John Jefferson Griffiths (423487) (Wireless Operator Air) Missing
Sergeant Charles Walter Laing (14626) (Flight Engineer) Killed
Flying Officer Raymond Thomas Marstella (405596) (Second Pilot) Killed
Flight Sergeant Guy Neville McLeod (426656) Seriously injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 10 December 1945
Flying Officer Francis Laurence Pepper (417881) (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) Missing
Flight Sergeant Murray Clive Pryor (437444) Seriously Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 3 December 1945
Sergeant Robert Roger Waddell (441309) Seriously injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 8 October 1945
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 Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/12/150