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
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
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).
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.