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spidge · 13-09-2007, 03:57 PM

Air Commodore Sir Hughie Edwards VC, DFC, DSO, MID.

http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Edwards_HI.htm

His total decorations and awards.

Victoria Cross,
Knight Commander of St. Michael & St. George,
Companion of the Order of the Bath,
Distinguished Service Order,
Order of the British Empire,
Distinguished Flying Cross,
Knight of St Johns,
1939-45 Star,

Aircrew Europe Star & rosette,
Africa Star,
Burma Star,
Defence Medal,
'39-45 War Medal (M.I.D.),
G.S. Medal 1918-1962, Malta clasp,
QEII Coronation 1953,
QEII Jubilee 1977.

Hughie Edwards Medals.jpg

Hughie Edwards VC.jpg

Hughie Edwards VC Plaque.jpg

13-09-2007, 03:57 PM	#1 (permalink)
spidge Super Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia Posts: 3,317 You're Top Poster: #3 Awards Showcase Total Awards: 6	Most Decorated Airmen of the Allied Air Forces Air Commodore Sir Hughie Edwards VC, DFC, DSO, MID. http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Edwards_HI.htm His total decorations and awards. Victoria Cross, Knight Commander of St. Michael & St. George, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order, Order of the British Empire, Distinguished Flying Cross, Knight of St Johns, 1939-45 Star, Aircrew Europe Star & rosette, Africa Star, Burma Star, Defence Medal, '39-45 War Medal (M.I.D.), G.S. Medal 1918-1962, Malta clasp, QEII Coronation 1953, QEII Jubilee 1977. Hughie Edwards Medals.jpg Hughie Edwards VC.jpg Hughie Edwards VC Plaque.jpg __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm Last edited by spidge; 13-09-2007 at 04:03 PM..