The Edwards crew went missing on the Courtrai operation of 20/21 July 1944. No trace of them was ever found, and they are commemorated on the Runnymede memorial. The bomb aimer on the crew was Jack Skingley. He was married with two children. His daughter, Jackie Maude, recently gave the manuscript of her father’s poem
Today we remember all the Pathfinder aircrew and their ground crew who lost their lives in the 1939-1945 war. And also the dead in other units of the RAF, and of the Army and the Navy, who fought for our freedom in the same conflict. Image shows the service of mixed rejoicing and remembrance on
