MEMORIALS TO MAJOR EDWIN SWALES, VC, DFC, UNVEILED IN DURBAN ON 11 NOVEMBER 2009

摘要

On Armistice Day 2009, two fine granite memorials to Major~* Edwin Swales, VC, DFC, were unveiled in the Memorial Courtyard of Durban High School (DHS) and on the Memorial Wall of the Natal Mounted Rifles (the NMR) in Durban by his niece, Professor Edwina Ward, and Lt Gen Carlo Gagiano, Chief of the South African Air Force (the SAAF). Edwin Swales was one of only four South Africans to be awarded the Victoria Cross in the Second World War (1939-1945). He was awarded his VC posthumously for his heroic deed on the night of 23 February 1945, which saved the lives of his seven crewmen on his stricken Lancaster bomber, but which cost him his own life.