Jimmy Edwards, Down Ampney, Arnhem

brithm · Apr 16, 2016

Cricklade museum kindly sent me this about Jimmy Edwards remembering Treble 4 his Dakota which crashed on the Arnhem run 'A Lady with No Voice by Jimmy Edwards'.

Also on BBC Genome Jimmy Edwards speaking on the Home Service

" TREBLE FOUR"— THE GLIDER TUG '

This is the story of a Dakota which towed gliders to Normandy on D-Day and to Arnhem in September. She was No. KG444 called ' Treble Four ' by her pilot, Flight Lieutenant Jim Edwards , D.F.C., who has recorded the great times they lived through together last summer' until the day when ' Treble Four ' was shot down in flames
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Brithm

cyclopenta · Oct 11, 2021

Peter Clare said: ↑

21 September 1944

271 Squadron.

Dakota KG444

Crashed between Oploo and Gemert.

The pilot of this aircraft was to achieve post-war fame as ‘Professor Jimmy Edwards’ but his RAF title was F/L. James Keith O’Neill Edwards.

This crew had delivered their load of supplies and the pilot climbed to 6,000 feet and carried out a circuit on the dropping areas before setting course to the south and climbing to 8,000 feet. South of Nijmegen, the aircraft was attacked by a fighter and after a running battle amongst broken cloud, the aircraft was severely damaged and set on fire. After deciding to bale out initially the pilot elected to crash land the aircraft, when he realised that several of the dispatchers had been wounded. Unfortunately the wounded soldiers could not be saved and they were killed when the aircraft crashed or died of their injuries immediately afterwards. F/L Edwards, his wireless operator and a soldier were able to reach Allied lines but the two other crew were made POWs

Lance Corporal G. Chisholme +
Driver L H S. Abbott +
Driver R. Abbott +

‘Though Without Anger’ - Cummings.
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Hi there! The crashlocation of Edwards and crew: 51°36'54.10"N 5°49'13.88"O (woodland in the Oploo area, NL). KR, Hans

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