Flight Officer (navigator) Edward Arthur Bunting, 165592

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  • Unit - Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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  • Date of Birth -
  • Died - 18/12/1944
  • Age - 21

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Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Son of George Henry and Gladys Eveline Bunting, of Albrighton, Wolverhampton; husband of Betty Margaret Bunting, of Leicester. Electrical Engineering Certificate of the City and Guilds of London.

Died on the 18/12/1944 aged 21 when the Armstrong Whitworth Albermale P1554 of No 42 O.T.U (Operational Training Unit) crashed whilst returning from a cross country exercise.

The altimeter had been wrongly set and the aircraft hit trees and a house.

Edward Bunting was the aircrafts navigator, and he was thrown out of the aircraft and killed. The rest of the crew survived.

He is buried in Gilroes Cemetery.
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Submitted by D. Langton 2019

Photograph submitted by J. Whiteman in 2021

Leicestershire Project Findings
  • Conflict - World War II
  • Cause of death - Flight accident
  • Burial Place - Leicester Gilroes Cemetery Section GG Grave 275