Service No. 418543

Date of Birth: 25 Sep 1912

Place of Birth: BOX HILL, VIC

Date of Enlistment: 23 May 1942

Date of Discharge: 7 Sep 1945

Rank: Flight Lieutenant

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Crew: 

• Warrant Officer D. Dunn - Pilot

• Flying Officer E.F. (Ted) Mumme - Navigator

• Flight Sergeant O'Brien - WAG

• Flight Sergeant Pennicott - WAG

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Ted Mumme, operated on important operational sorties with one of the 8 "Shadowing" crews of the Axis Aegean convoy 1st June 1944.

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The information below was supplied by Bob Mitchell in a February 2006 email:

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Sixty years ago Ted Mumme was in Brighton, England, when he heard that peace had been declared in Europe.

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After several years navigating Baltimore bombers with 454 Squadron in the Middle East, Ted and his friends got on a train to London to celebrate the news.

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It was an incredible day.  There were thousands and thousands in London and the lights were back on after such a long time.

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Ted said the history books told a different version of events than the way he recalled. It was mistakenly reported his plane was shot down.

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We were in Italy doing a new type of pattern bombing and the plane in front was shot down.

"History said it was our plane that did not return."