{"id":13237,"date":"2021-04-12T20:26:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T20:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/rolfe-edgar-alexander\/"},"modified":"2021-04-27T14:03:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T14:03:27","slug":"rolfe-edgar-alexander","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/rolfe-edgar-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolfe, Edgar Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Edgar Alexander Rolfe<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Wireless Operator\/Air Gunner, 37 Squadron  <br>Service number 1262070<br>Died 09 Feb 1943<br>Commemorated on Alamein Memorial, Egypt<br>Age 21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Edgar was born in January 1921 in Hampstead, London to Walter and Hannah nee Austriak and he had an older brother Leslie. Their father Walter ran a woollen drapers shop in Earlsmead Road, Willesden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edgar was a wireless operator\/air gunner on Wellington LA994 which departed from Magrum North at 1710 hours on 8 February 1943 to attack Palermo. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it did not return to base. Following post war enquiries and investigations, it was recorded in 1948 that the missing crew members had lost their lives at sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pilot, Roland Moorin, 1054968. <br>2nd Pilot, Irwin Foulds, RNZAF, 412785. <br>Nav, Donald Hood, RAAF, 402559. <br>W\/Op, A\/G, Tom Penrose, 997260. <br>A\/G, Hew Russell Stevenson, 778496. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/alamein1-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/alamein1-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/alamein1-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/alamein1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/alamein1-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/alamein1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edgar Alexander Rolfe Wireless Operator\/Air Gunner, 37 Squadron Service number 1262070Died 09 Feb 1943Commemorated on Alamein Memorial, EgyptAge 21 Edgar was born in January 1921 in Hampstead, London to Walter and Hannah nee Austriak and he had an older brother Leslie. Their father Walter ran a woollen drapers shop in Earlsmead Road, Willesden. 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