In Memory Of

LITCHFIELD, EDWIN GILES

Service Details
Age:
 26
Date of Birth:
 1917-01-21
Rank:
 Sergeant
Unit:
 429 (R.C.A.F.) Sqdn
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death:
 1943-04-27
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
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Coll. grave 4-6.
Cemetery:
 BORNE (BORNERBROEK) ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHYARD
Country:
 Netherlands
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