Group Captain EB Rice
Edward Brownsdon Rice
- Rank
- Group Captain
- Fate
- Did not survive the war
- In the book
- Pages 30, 31
From the book
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Air Vice Marshal Sir Edward Arthur Beckton Rice KBE CB MC was not as some sources suggest, a South African but easily confused with Group Captain Edward Brownsdon Rice who was born in Cape Town. They were both First World War pilots who served during the Second World War.
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Sir Edward Rice, served with the South African forces before the First World War, attended Sandhurst and commissioned as a pilot in 1915 while Group Captain EB Rice also attended Sandhurst was attached to the Royal Dublin Fusileers before obtaining his wings in 1916.
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Group Captain EB Rice was Brize Norton’s officer commanding in 1940. Posted to the Far East, he escaped from Singapore in February 1942, subsequently captured by the Japanese, malnutrition led to his death at a Formosa POW Camp in September 1943.