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Met Office adds: Born 1914, died 20 August 1940. Edwin appears to have responded to appeals to join the Meteorological Branch RAFVR in the spring of 1939. In the summer of 1940 he was stationed at RAF Biggin Hill working as an observer in the meteorological office. On the evening of his death Edwin was leaving the Airmen’s Mess after his evening meal when nine German Junkers 88s attacked and bombed the airfield without warning. He managed to reach a bomb shelter but in what proved to be the most severe raid on the airfield of the war a bomb fell through the shelter’s entrance killing all 39 men inside. Another observer, Norman Arthur Roberts was killed during the same raid.