Service Details
Name:
 LITCHFIELD
Given Name:
 EDWIN GILES
Initials:
 E G
Trade:
 W.Op./Air Gnr.
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 429 (R.C.A.F.) Sqdn
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Date of Death:
 1943-04-27
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Date of Birth:
 1917-01-21
Age:
 26
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Wellington HE382, target Duisburg, Germany, shot down over Holland during an air raid on Duisburg, Germany and crashed at Entersestraat, just west of Bornerbroek, Overijssel, Netherlands. Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant August Geiger of the 7/NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Twente airfield
Additional
Information:
Son of Arthur Frederick and Ivy Muriel Constance (nee Preller) Litchfield, of Kilwa, Tanganyika (previously from Isipingo Beach, Natal, South Africa). His brother in law Bernard Thomas Loxton also died in service WWII. Commemorated on the following memorials; Isipingo Beach, Natal South Coast & in Old Holy Trinity Anglican Church Cemetery, Middleton, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada
Commemoration
Country:
 Netherlands
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Cemetery:
 BORNE (BORNERBROEK) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD
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Grave Reference:
 Coll. grave 4-6.

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