Flight Sergeant A.R. Edwards

9th March 1945

Tiger Moth DE473 had taken off from Abbots Bromley airfield. F/Sgt AR Edwards, instructor, and AC AJMcL Keay, pupil pilot, also buried at Repton, were killed between the airfield and Radmore Wood, north-west of Burton.   They collided with Halifax NA317 1665HCU from Tilstock, Shropshire.   The crews of both aircraft died.

It is believed that Flight Sergeant Allan Edwards died when teaching a pupil a spin from high altitude.   His fiancée heard the news of his death in South Africa; she was about to board the troopship that would bring her to England to marry him.