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F/O. Edwin Albert Love
Royal Canadian Air Force 78 Squadron
from:Tilbury, Ontario
(d.4th November 1944 )
Ted Love graduated from Tilbury High School and enlisted upon graduation, he was commissioned as a Pilot Officer at Uplands, ON. on the 17th of June 1943. He trained as a navigator at Prince Edward Island
He was reported missing whilst flying over enemy territory with 78 Squadron on the 4th of November 1944. Shot down in Halifax LK838 on night Air Operations to Bochurn, Germany. They were attacked near Margraten, Holland. Besides F/O Love and three other crew members were killed, WO. W. C. Roach was taken as a POW, two others, not Canadian were missing believed killed. A photo of F/O Love appeared in the local newspaper when he was reported missing. He is buried in the Venray War Cemetery. He was the son of Albert and Edith Grace Love of Tilbury, Ontario, Canada. Ted was 21 years old.