{"id":610,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=610"},"modified":"2020-11-19T14:42:53","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T14:42:53","slug":"osborne-edward-walter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/osborne-edward-walter\/","title":{"rendered":"Osborne, Edward Walter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Pilot, 239 Squadron
Service number 160669
Died 16 September 1944
Buried Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, Germany
Age 23<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Headstone Inscription
‘FOR EVER REMEMBERED BY HIS PARENTS, BROTHERS, SISTERS AND MANY FRIENDS’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Edward was born in October 1920 in Willesden, Middlesex to German born parents Max Oettinger and Fanny n\u00e9e Eckstein. Max and Fanny were born in Ulm, Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, Germany. On December 15 1909, Max and his family became naturalised British citizens. The family legally changed their surname from Oettinger to Osborne on 15 September 1939. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Edward had four brothers, Frank, Alan, John and Peter and two sisters, Claire and Ruth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Edward was the pilot of Mosquito PZ226 which departed RAF West Raynham to provide bomber support at Kiel. The aircraft crashed 25 km west-south-west of Schwerin, Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Edward and his navigator George Victor Acheson were both killed and are laid to rest beside each other. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n