Cousin Flight Lieutenant Jimmy Edwards visits despatchers

This week, as part of their 10-day road trip with their fabulous Morgans, the Edwards family and some friends also visited the graves of despatchers Roy Abbott, Lionel Abbott and George Chisholme in the Overloon War Cemetery.

Tim Edwards is the nephew of Flight Lieutenant Jimmy Edwards, who crashed his Dakota C47 on September 21, 1944in the forest (Staatsbossen) near the village of Sint Anthonis on his way back from stock drops at Hotel Hartenstein in Oosterbeek during the Battle of Arnhem after getting into combat with a German fighter plane. Abbott, Abbott and Chisholme were killed in that crash in Sint Anthonis. Later their remains were directed from their temporary grave in Sint Anthonis to the Overloon War Cemetery.

For our complete file on the 3 despatchers, see the biography section on our website or click on the links above.