| 词条 | Cedric Edwards |
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| name = Cedric George Edwards | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1899|6|5}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1918|8|27|1899|6|5}} | birth_place = Hampstead, London, England | death_place = Vicinity of Jigsaw Wood, France | placeofburial_label = Commemorated at | placeofburial = Arras Flying Services Memorial, Pas de Calais, France | placeofburial_coordinates = | nickname = | allegiance = United Kingdom | branch = Royal Navy Royal Air Force | serviceyears = 1917–1918 | rank = Lieutenant | unit = No. 12 Squadron RNAS No. 9 Squadron RNAS/No. 209 Squadron RAF | commands = | battles = World War I | awards = Distinguished Flying Cross | relations = | laterwork = }} Lieutenant Cedric George Edwards {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DFC}} (5 June 1899 – 27 August 1918) was a British World War I flying ace credited with seven aerial victories.[1] BiographyEdwards was born in Hampstead, London, the son of John Frederick Edwards (1857–1940) and Elizabeth Ann (née Walton) (1865–1945).[2] He initially joined the Royal Naval Air Service as a probationary temporary flight officer on 7 September 1917, being commissioned as a temporary flight sub-lieutenant on 27 November 1917.[3] After training with No. 12 Squadron, he was posted to No. 9 Squadron, which became No. 209 Squadron RAF on 1 April 1918.[1] Flying a Sopwith Camel, between 11 April and 11 August 1918 he accounted for seven enemy aircraft destroyed or driven down out of control; four solo and three shared with other pilots, including Roy Brown, Robert Foster and Thomas Luke.[1] Edwards was killed on 27 August 1918 when his aircraft was shot down by anti-aircraft fire near Jigsaw Wood, France.[2] Initially reported as "missing", his death was later confirmed,[4] although his body was never recovered. He is commemorated at the Arras Flying Services Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.[5] His award of the Distinguished Flying Cross was gazetted posthumously on 20 September 1918. His citation read: Lieutenant Cedric George Edwards. The fearlessness and disregard of danger displayed by this officer in attacking enemy troops, etc., at low altitudes is most marked, and worthy of the highest praise. On one occasion in an attack on an aerodrome, to enable him to fire on the hangars he descended so low that the wheels of his machine touched the ground. He has in air combats destroyed three hostile aircraft.[6] References1. ^1 2 {{cite web |url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/edwards1.php |title=Cedric George Edwards |work=The Aerodrome |year=2014 |accessdate=24 November 2014 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, Cedric George}}2. ^1 {{cite web |url= http://www.airgale.com.au/eedwards/d3.htm |title=Cedric George Edwards |work=The Descendants of Edward Edwards |year=2007 |accessdate=24 November 2014}} 3. ^{{London Gazette |issue=30402 |date=27 November 1917 |page=12356 |nolink=yes }} 4. ^{{cite journal |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1918/1918%20-%201094.html |title=Casualties |issue=509 |volume=X |page=1O94 |work=Flight |date=26 September 1918 |accessdate=24 November 2014 }} 5. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1541171/EDWARDS,%20CEDRIC%20GEORGE |title=Edwards, Cedric George |work=Commonwealth War Graves Commission |year=2014 |accessdate=24 November 2014}} 6. ^{{London Gazette |issue=30913 |date=20 September 1918 |pages=11250–11251 |supp=y }} 8 : 1899 births|1918 deaths|People from Hampstead|Royal Naval Air Service aviators|Royal Air Force personnel of World War I|British World War I flying aces|British military personnel killed in World War I|Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom) |
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