Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 224

W ORLD W AR II

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name HERBERT MUNDY (Pilot Officer)

Lef SES 1939

Roll Number 2959 Died 24:02:1941

Set / House F

Arrive SES 1934

Where OVER DEVON, ENGLAND Serving with 3 COASTAL TRAINING UNIT, R.A.F.

Age 20

Buried St. Augustine Churchyard, Heanton Punchardon, N.Devon Remembered The St. Edward’s School WW2 Memorial

Born in South Africa 1920, the elder of the two SES brothers, both killed in this war, sons of a doctor. His School career does not seemed to have been especially notable and the only quote for him in ‘The Chronicle’ stated: ‘to one privileged to know something of the visions he saw, it was not surprising that he chose the service that he entered’. He joined RAF Cranwell on leaving School in 1939, then a Pilot Officer on probation in 1940. He was fully qualified by 1941. He died in an air accident during a training flight for which ‘there was no explanation’. ‘The aircraft just shattered in the clouds’ (quote). He was piloting a Beaufort 1 Aircraft. His younger brother was killed in Italy later in the war.