Acting Group Captain RIK Edwards
Richard Irvin Knight Edwards
- Rank
- Flying Officer
- Later rank
- Acting Group Captain
- Honours
- DFC and Bar, AFC
- School
- King Edward VII School
- Fate
- Survived the war
From the book
More than a “Few” South Africans
The Second World War was not on the horizon when Richard Irvin Knight Edwards commissioned as an “Acting Pilot Officer on Probation” in 1934. Flying Officer RIK Edwards was serving in Aden when he was awarded the “Distinguished Flying Cross” for “gallant and distinguished services in the Aden Protectorate” in 1939. Educated at King Edwards in Johannesburg, acting Wing Commander Edwards was commanding No 21 SFTS in Bulawayo Rhodesia when he was awarded an “Air Force Cross” in 1943. Two years later, he earned a “Bar” to his “Distinguished Flying Cross” serving with 139 Wing flying North American Mitchell’s.Acting Group Captain Edwards was awarded the Queens Commendation for Valuable Services in the Air in 1953, no other service detail has been sourced.