Flight Lieut. Trevor Aubrey Andrews
South Yorkshire Times, January 2nd 1943
Mr. Trevor A. Andrews, second son of Mr. E. Andrews, Electrical Engineer to Mexborough Urban Council and Mrs. Andrews has received his commission in the R.A.F. Pilot Officer Andrew is 19 and joined the Service some nine months ago
South Yorkshire Times, September 1st 1945
Well Met
Flight Lieut. Trevor Andrews (22), son of Mr. Andrews, Mexborough U.D.C.’s Electrical Engineer and Mrs. Andrews, has recently had several chance meetings with men from Mexborough and district out in India. A short time later, while Flight Lieut. Andrews was convalescing from a second attack of malaria, a shout of “Hi there Captain was addressed to him as he rode by on his bicycle. The voice was that of Mr. Tom Flather Mexborough Council’s housing manager before going into the R.A.F.
South Yorkshire Times, January 5th 1946
Lost In Java Action
How Mexboro’ R.A.F. Officer Was Killed
Some of the circumstances surrounding the air operation in which Flight Lieut. Trevor Aubrey Andrews, (22) son of Mr. E. Andrews, Mexborough’s Electrical Engineer, and Mrs. Andrews, is now reported to have lost his life, have been revealed through a visit made by Mr. Andrews to the Air Ministry and from a letter written by a friend on Flight Lieut. Andrews station in SEAC
On December 1st about 2:30 pm, Mr. Andrews learned the Mosquito in which his son was flying as Navigator was covering a convoy of motor transport on the road from Bandoeng to Batavia in Java. Their task was to escort the motorised column and to dispose of strong points along the road. Flight Lieut. Andrew’s craft was directed to one of these strong points, and that was the last heard of it. “It seems possible,” writes the friend, “that the air craft which was of necessity flying low for strafing purposes, was hit by a shell, but we do not know that for certain. We feel that his pilot, a highly skilled and competent chap, would not have made an error of judgement through flying too low. We feel sure that something like being hit by cannon fire must have happened.”
Acting Squadron Leader “Johnnie” Slips, the pilot, who is also reported killed, was married only three weeks before to an English girl in Bangalore, India. Flight Lieut. Andrews was best man at the wedding. Leaving Mexborough Secondary School to join the R.A.F. as an AC2 in February 1941, Flight Lieut. Andrews was returned home on deferred service because of his age, rejoined when he was 18 ½, trained in this country, promoted Sergeant in December 1942 and then Flight Lieut. in India and Burma, where all his operations were carried out after leaving for the Far East In June 1943.
C.W.G.C.
Flight Lieutenant Trevor Aubrey Andrews
Service Number 135275
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
84 Squadron Navigator/Wireless Operator
Died December 1st 1945
Aged 22 years
Aircraft: Mosquito FB VI
Failed to return from an attack on terrorist road traffic
Buried or commemorated at Jakarta War Cemetery 4.D.3. Indonesia
Son of Edward and Olga Marie Andrews of Skegness, Lincolnshire.