Lieutenant Edward H W Norman

Lieutenant Edward Harvey William Norman, son of Edward and Frances Ann Maud Norman, of Edinburgh, was originally commissioned in the Royal Artillery in early 1944 before transferring to the Airborne service as Second Lieutenant with the Glider Pilot Regiment in late-May 1944.

Having become a Lieutenant, he was probably still in glider training by the end of 1944. He was amongst a party of Glider Pilots en-route to India in December 1944.

Lieutenant Norman died on 5 December 1944, aged 23 years old when Dakota FL588 from 24 Squadron RAF Transport Command, based at RAF Hendon, crashed on a snowy ridge in Ariege, near Mijanes in the Pyrenees, Southern France. 23 Airmen were onboard, 20 of which belonged to the GPR. Fifteen other men onboard died as a result of the crash. He is now buried in the Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles.

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