Janet Edith COX
(nee Joynt, known as Edith)

Serial Number: W
RNZAF Trade: Supplier
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Flying Hours: nil as aircrew, passenger only
Operational Sorties: nil
Service Details: Having her home so close to RNZAF Station Te Rapa, Edith became the only Te Rapa WAAF allowed to live off-station. She would ride to work each morning on her son Bryan's old bicycle which she had cut down to make into a lady's bike. On the station Edith worked alongside another Cambridge WAAF, Olive Montgomery.

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Personal Details: Married to John Barker Cox (known as Jack), Edith was the mother of John Grant Cox (known as Grant) and Bryan Barker Cox, both of whom became RNZAF pilots.

The first ever time that Edith flew in a plane was when she was flown by the RNZAF in a Lockheed Hudson from Hamilton down to Nelson to see Bryan's Wings ceremony. She returned to the North Island the following day in a Harvard, and she loved flying from that time onwards