Edward
Arthur
Daley
aka Daly
Born in Saint Arnaud, Victoria, Australia
Ancestors 
Brother of
Stella Annie (Daley) Howell, Marjorie Catherine (Daley) Rule and Gwendoline (Daley) Redden
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 21
in Off Sicily
Profile last modified
| Created 2 Aug 2016
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Biography
Edward Arthur "Ted" Daley was born on 8 August 1921 in St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia, the son of Elizabeth Hannah May (Kirkpatrick) Daley and Edward Charles Daley.[1]
Ted was a Bank Clerk and became a RAAF spitfire pilot attached to 145 squadron in WW2 and disappeared on the return from a bombing raid on Sicily, to base at North Africa. He was Warrant Officer 400785 and enlisted in Melbourne 0n 8th November 1940, and was officially presumed dead on 4 July 1943. He is commemorated on the Malta Memorial, panel 11, column 2. His service record and other details are available.[2]
Sources
- ↑ Birth record: 26087 / 1921. BDM Victoria. https://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/research-and-family-history/search-your-family-history.
(Name: Edw Arth DALY); (Place: S ARNAUD, VIC); (Mother: Eliz Hannah May KIRKPATRICK); (Father: Edwd Chas) - ↑ "Warrant Officer Edward Arthur Daley." Retrieved 19 June 2021 from https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P10307414.
- Service number 400785
- Death Date 04 July 1943
- Death Place Off: Off Sicily
- Final Rank Warrant Officer
- Service Royal Australian Air Force
- Unit No. 145 Squadron (RAF)
- Place Off Sicily
- Conflict/Operation Second World War, 1939-1945
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