Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 01 June 1940

Missing Airman

Mr. and Mrs. Hibbert, of 40. West Road, Mexborough, have received news, that that their son, Edward Hibbert. aged 24, a sergeant In the Royal Air Force, is missing.

Sergeant Hibbert has been in the R.A.F. for nearly ten years and has served in various parts of the world before being drafted to France at the outbreak of war. He passed the Air Force entrance examination at Mexborough Secondary first a bugler. For two he sounded the bugle at the Cenotaph with the R.A.F. contingent.

He wrote to his parents a fortnight ago, saying that his leave was due but that probably it would have to be delayed. The official notice states that the ‘plane in which Sergeant Hibbert was an observer, was a bomber “engaged on an operational flight” and failed to return to its base. He had been in an earlier crash and was in hospital for eight weeks, coming out only three weeks ago. In the meantime his parents are living in hopes that Sergeant Hibbert is a prisoner.

Mr. Hibbert served Throughout the last war as a machine gunner and took part in the Dardanelles landing.

From C.W.G.C.:

Sergeant EDWARD HIBBERT
Service Number: 564863
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Air Force 88 Sqdn.

Date of Death Died 23 May 1940

Buried or commemorated at DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY Coll. grave 6. B. 17-19. Germany