Remembering Today 27/9/45 FO:Henry Graham Eadon,195896,Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

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  1. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Flying Officer (Pilot)EADON, HENRY GRAHAM
    Service Number 195896

    Died 27/09/1945

    Aged 22

    Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

    Son of Harry P. Eadon and Constance Maud Eadon, of Owlerton, Sheffield, England.
    Casualty
     
  2. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2005
    Name: Henry G Eadon
    Mother's Maiden Surname: Webster
    Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1923
    Registration district: Sheffield
    Inferred County: Yorkshire
    Volume Number: 9c
    Page Number: 950

    Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
    Name: Henry Graham Eadon
    Birth Date: 11 Aug 1923
    Birth Place: England
    Death Date: 27 Sep 1945
    Death Place: Moncton, Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada
    Cemetery: Elmwood Cemetery
    Burial or Cremation Place: Moncton, Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada
    Has Bio?: Y
    URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-...

    So born UK, buried in Canada

    TD
     
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  3. KevinBattle

    KevinBattle Senior Member

    Looks like he may have been commissioned in Jan '45.
    Perhaps Moncton was a depot for pilot training?
    Page 2292 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 1 MAY, 1945
    1624615 Henry Graham EADON (195896). 13th Jan. 1945.

    his brother...
    EADON, DEREK WEBSTER. Lieutenant 219674 Tuesday, September 5, 1944. Age 25. FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY VIEW RECORD Royal Engineers United Kingdom
    Son of Harry P. and Constance M. Eadon, of Sheffield; husband of Mary Stewart Eadon, of Owlerton, Sheffield.

    and the Owlerton WW1 Roll of Honour has
    EADON, JOSEPH WILLIAM. Private. 12/1542 Friday, April 19, 1918. Age 21 LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY VIEW RECORD York and Lancaster Regiment United Kingdom
    so a possible relation (not that it is relevant).
     
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  4. Pat Atkins

    Pat Atkins Well-Known Member

    Moncton was No 31 Personnel Depot during the war, and was a holding/distribution centre for u/t and returning (qualified) RAF and FAA aircrew; my uncle Don passed through on his way to and from flying training in Florida as part of the Towers Scheme. It became RCAF No1 'Y' Depot in Feb 1945 and as such repatriated British aircrew (which I take to mean it fulfilled pretty much the same role as before) - see the thread here.

    Henry Eadon was a pilot, and was gazetted Flying Officer (war subs.) on 13 July 1945. Given that, in the normal scheme of things, he would not have been commissioned before passing out as a pilot I wonder if perhaps he was an instructor at the EFTS which grew out of Moncton Flight College?

    Cheers, Pat.
     
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