Flying Officer
Munday, Edward Richard
Unit
Branch
Service Component
Royal Air Force
Service Number
476336
birth
1887/05/11
Acton, United Kingdom, England
death
1918/08/05
grave
Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton, Hampshire, England
Gender
Male
Edward Richard Munday was born in Acton, London, England, on 11 May 1887. He was the second of Edward and Sarah Munday’s nine children. His father was a sewing machine agent. The family immigrated to Canada in 1905 and settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Munday was a bookkeeper when he enlisted in the Fort Garry Horse at Camp Hughes (formerly Sewell Camp), in Manitoba, on 8 October 1915. He later transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and was based at Yarmouth, England. On 5 August 1918, Munday went on a hostile aircraft patrol, flying an Airco DH.9 with the serial number D5802. He never returned.
Edward Richard Munday is commemorated on the Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton, Hampshire, England.
