Known Squadron Assignments: ;11

Diverted from RAF order; first tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7344. Operated by No. 11 (BR) Sqn, from 23 Sep 1939. To EAC with this unit on 1 Apr 1940. Cat “A” crash in the Eastern Passage, at 08:25 hrs on 15 Jul 1940, when the a/c dove into the sea after an engine failure upon take-off. The two-person crew, consisting of Flying Officer J.J.A.V. Lalonde and Cpl M.J. Armitage, were both killed. The a/c had just 232:10 airframe hours when it crashed.
2022-01-15
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1939-September-23 Taken on Strength RCAF Station 2019-08-20
1940-July-15 Accident: 11 Squadron Loc: Dartmouth Nova Scotia Names: Armitage | Lalonde
   1940-September-26 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20
1940-July-15 KIA RCAF Corporal Maxwell James Armitage 2022-10-29
1940-July-15 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Joseph Jean Alexander Victor Lalonde 2023-06-14

Known Squadron Assignments: ;145

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7345. Operated by No. 11 (BR) Squadron, from 15 September 1939, coded "OY*B". To Eastern Air Command with this unit following transfer to RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS on 1 April 1940 (this is date of ownership transfer, squadron move date is reported as 3 November 1939). Category B damage at Dartmouth at 04:30 on 20 June 1942, when right undercarriage collapsed and aircraft ground looped. To Clark Ruse Aircraft for repairs, 27 June to 3 September 1942. To Eastern Air Command when completed. Being operated by No. 145 (BR) Squadron based at Torbay, Newfoundland when lost at sea on 28 January 1943. Crashed in vicinity of convoy while on escort mission, no survivors. 2022-01-15
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1939-September-15 Taken on Strength RCAF Station 2019-08-20
1942-June-20 Accident: 11 Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: Hoehn | Maxwell | Porterfield | Willis
1943-January-28 Accident: 145 Squadron Loc: Over The Atlantic Ocean Names: Barnes | Boyer | Quellette | Snow
   1943-October-20 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20
1943-January-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Roland Roy Barnes 2023-02-08
1943-January-28 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Jack Sinclair Boyer 2023-02-08
1943-January-28 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Joseph Edmond Ouellette 2023-02-15
1943-January-28 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Field Crichton Snow 2023-02-16

Known Squadron Assignments: ;11

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7346. Operated by No. 11 (BR) Squadron, from 15 September 1939. To Eastern Air Command with this unit on 1 April 1940. Flew this squadron's first war time mission, naval cooperation and height finding with HMS Repulse and Furious, 10 November 1939. Aircraft had been on detachment to Torbay, Newfoundland, and was returning to Dartmouth for scheduled maintenance when it crashed at 17:42 on 6 May 1942. Developed engine trouble on lift off, struck the ground wing low and cart wheeled. Caught fire immediately. 8 fatalities, including pilot Flight Lieutenant H.J. Leblanc and people returning to Dartmouth on leave. First fatal crash at RCAF Station Torbay, and the largest. 0000-01-01
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1939-September-15 Taken on Strength RCAF Station 2019-08-20
1942-May-06 Accident: 11 Squadron Loc: Rcaf Stnorth Torday Newfoundland Names: Brothers | Colville | Crymes | Ehrlichman | Else | Fleischman | Leblanc | Taylor
   1943-April-16 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20
1942-May-06 KIA RCAF Sergeant Monty Holt Brothers 2023-04-30
1942-May-06 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant William Freeborne Colville 2024-03-24
1942-May-06 KIA RCAF Leading Aircraftman Smith Edward Crymes 2023-04-30
1942-May-06 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Rudolph Irwin Ehrlichman 2023-04-30
1942-May-06 KIA RCAF Corporal Charles Frederick Else 2023-04-30
1942-May-06 KIA RCAF Leading Aircraftman Norman Clifford Fleischman 2023-04-30
1942-May-06 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Joseph Hyacinthe Ulysses Le Blanc 2023-04-30
1942-May-06 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Harold Fulford Taylor 2023-04-30

Known Squadron Assignments: ;145

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7347. To No. 11 (BR) Sqn at Ottawa on 16 Sep 1943. To EAC with this unit in Apr 1940. With the Test & Development Establishment at RCAF Stn Rockcliffe, ON, dates unknown. With No. 145 (BR) Sqn, EAC, RCAF Stn Torbay, NF, in 1942. Cat “A” crash at Charlottetown, PEI on 9 Jul 1943. The a/c was on cross country flight with a crew of four and two passengers to pick up a ferry crew at Scoudouc, NB. The a/c had an engine failure and attempted an emergency landing at Charlottetown. The Hudson came in too high and overshot the runway. While attempting to go around, the a/c clipped some trees and crashed ending up in a gulley. Five of the six personnel onboard walked away with only slight injuries but the pilot, Flight Lieutenant J.R. Hastie, was killed. Ownership to No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB for write off on 13 Jul 1944. 2022-01-15
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1939-September-16 Taken on Strength RCAF Station 2019-08-20
1943-July-09 Accident: 145 Squadron Loc: Charlottetown Names: Campbell | Doods | Hall | Hastie | Moir | Tinsley

   1943-September-22 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20
1943-July-09 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Jack Renwick Hastie 2023-03-20

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7348. With the Test & Development Establishment at RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario, initially with RAF serial marked, by 21 September 1939, when it was flown to Trenton and return. To No. 11 (BR) Squadron at Ottawa on 18 September 1939. With this unit to RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS, in late 1939, coded "OY*F". Still with this unit when it transferred to Eastern Air Command in April 1940. Category C3 damage in the No. 5 hanger at Yarmouth, NS at 07:00 on 25 November 1942, when an out of control tractor struck the aircraft. Loaned to Central Training Establishment, probably for use at an Operational Training Unit, on 21 October 1943. Pending disposal from 8 August 1944, stored at No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, reported with 1224:40 total logged time while there. By 25 March 1946 stored at No. $ Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB, still pending disposal. 2022-01-15
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1939-September-18 Taken on Strength RCAF Station 2019-08-20
1942-November-25 Accident: RCAF STN Loc: Yarmouth Nova Scotia Names: Hobbs | Lemarre
   1946-December-02 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for sale 2019-08-20

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7349. Operated by No. 11 (BR) Squadron at Ottawa from 16 September 1939, then with this unit to RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in late 1939, coded "OY*G". Still with this unit when it transferred to Eastern Air Command in April 1940. Category C damage at Dartmouth on 1 November 1940. To Western Air Command on 4 March 1941, operated by No. 120 (BR) Squadron from RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC, March to late 1941. Back to Eastern Air Command on 30 July 1942. To Clark Ruse Aircraft for overhaul, 29 August to 25 September 1942. To Eastern Air Command when completed. Loaned to Central Training Establishment from 21 October 1943, probably for use at an Operational Training Unit. To stored reserve with Eastern Air Command on 22 May 1944. Pending disposal from 28 June 1944. Reported with 1460:35 total time while in storage at No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB. 2022-01-15
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1939-September-16 Taken on Strength RCAF Station 2019-08-20
1940-November-01 Accident: 11 Squadron Loc: Eastern Landplane Base Passage Names: Butts | Curron | Dubuc | Hall | Roller
1940-December-18 Accident: 11 Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Dartmouth Names: Douglas | Gillis | Lougheed | Power
   1945-February-02 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for sale 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;13

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7350. Operated by No. 11 (BR) Squadron at Ottawa from 16 September 1939, then with this unit to RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in late 1939. To Western Air Command on 4 March 1941. Operated by No. 120 (BR) Squadron from RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC, March to late 1941. Serving with No. 13 (OT) Squadron when it crashed and burned on takeoff from Bellingham, Washington State at 16:18 on 6 July 1942. 3 fatalities, including both Pilot Officer R. McLachlen, second pilot; radio operator, Sgt./WAG Victor A. Utting; and P/O/ E.R. Brooks. 4 passengers seriously injured. Information provided by Sgt. Utting's younger brother, Phillip S. Utting. 2016-02-09
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1939-September-16 Taken on Strength RCAF Station 2019-08-20
1942-July-06 Accident: 13 OT Squadron Loc: Bellingham Wash Names: Beatty | Brooks | MacBean | Maclachlan | Merredew | Olson | Utting
   1942-September-03 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce at No. 3 Repair Depot, Vancouver 2019-08-20
1942-July-06 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Ernest Ross Brooks 2023-05-31
1942-July-06 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Bruce MacLachlan 2023-07-03
1942-July-06 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Victor Allan Utting 2023-03-21

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7352. Operated by No. 11 (BR) Squadron at Ottawa from 20 September 1939, then with this unit to RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in late 1939. Still with this unit when it transferred to Eastern Air Command in April 1940. To Western Air Command on 4 March 1941. Operated by No. 120 (BR) Squadron from RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC, March to June 1941. Crashed while landing at Patricia Bay at 17:00 on 2 June 1941, after a radio operator training mission. Originally classified as Category A, but to Boeing Aircraft in Vancouver, BC for repairs, 8 July 1941 to 10 March 1942. To Western Air Command when completed, for use by No. 13 (OTU) Squadron. To No. 13 (OTU) Squadron on west coast in 1942. Category C damage at Patricia Bay while with this unit, probably in spring 1942. To Boeing Aircraft again for repairs, 23 April to 18 July 1942. To Eastern Air Command on 30 July 1942, probably for use by No. 145 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Torbay, Newfoundland. To stored reserve with Eastern Air Command on 22 May 1944. Pending disposal from 28 June 1944. Reported with 799:10 total time, 383:00 since overhaul, while in storage at No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB. 2016-01-31
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1939-September-20 Taken on Strength RCAF Station 2019-08-20
1941-June-02 Accident: 120 Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: Barnes | Chapman | Haglund | Hutchings | Jessen | Lawrence | Mckay | Wilson
1942-March-31 Accident: 13 OT Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: Colville | Corey | Harwood | Isaacs | Smith | Yeats
1943-March-10 Accident: 145 Squadron Loc: Torbay Aerodrome Names: Corbett | Lunny | Robinson | Williams
   1945-February-02 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for sale 2019-08-20

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7354. Operated by No. 11 (BR) Squadron at Ottawa from 18 September 1939, then with this unit to RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in late 1939. Probably first RCAF Hudson loss. Force landed in sea at 16:40 on 30 December 1939, near Pleasant Point, NS. Pounding of waves stove in port fuselage, and aircraft sank. Had 70:00 logged time when lost. 2021-10-27
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1939-September-18 Taken on Strength RCAF Station 2019-08-20
   1940-February-25 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20
1941-October-21 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Clarke | John

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7355. Operated by No. 11 (BR) Squadron at Ottawa from 18 September 1939, then with this unit to RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in late 1939. To Eastern Air Command with this unit in April 1940. Coded "OY*L" when lost. Category A crash in Newfoundland on 28 January 1942. Reported encountering bad weather returning from patrol, then went missing. Wreckage not located until February 1942. Ownership to RCAF Station Gander, Newfoundland on 18 February 1942 for scrapping. 2016-05-21
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1939-September-20 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1942-January-27 Accident: 11 BR DET Loc: Newfoundland East Names: Mcgregor | Pilcher | Taylor | Wishart
   1943-January-12 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce at RCAF Station Gander, Newfoundland 2019-08-20

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7356. To RCAF Station Rockcliffe on 2 July 1940. To Communications Flight on at Rockcliffe on 30 July 1940. To Test and Development Flight at Rockcliffe on 24 August 1940, reported with RAF serial while with this unit. To stored reserve with Eastern Air Command on 13 September 1940. With No. 110 (BR) Squadron, Eastern Air Command, from 5 June 1941. To No. 3 Training Command, for use by Test & Development Establishment at RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario on 21 April 1942, for testing of short range homing antennae. Back to Eastern Air Command on 21 May 1942. To workshop reserve at No. 19 Sub-Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 30 November 1942. Back to Eastern Air Command on 8 August 1943. To No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc on 21 March 1944, for scrapping 0000-01-01
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1940-February-09 Taken on Strength No. 1 Aircraft Depot 2019-08-20
1942-November-27 Accident: 145 Squadron Loc: Torbay Names: French | Govier | Hastie
   1944-May-16 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;1

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7360. Assigned to RCAF Stn Ottawa on 20 May 1940. To No. 1 Training Command on 16 Jun 1940, still at Rockcliffe. In use with Air Force Headquarters Communications Flight (recently formed from No. 7 (GP) Sqn), RCAF Stn Rockcliffe, ON as a VIP transport when it crashed 1 mile east of Newtonville, ON at 12:15 on 10 Jun 1940, carrying Minister of Defence Norman MacLeod Rogers. Struck trees in a steep bank at high speed. No survivors. Was en route Rockcliffe to Toronto for the Minister to give a speech. May not have had RCAF serial marked by time of crash. Subsequent investigation faulted crew for pressing on into deteriorating weather, and faulted design of Hudson that made it impossible to maintain altitude in steep turns. Had just 48:55 airframe hours when it crashed. 2022-01-15
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1940-January-31 Taken on Strength No. 1 (E) Depot 2019-08-20
   1940-November-04 Struck off Strength Category A Write off 2022-01-15
1940-June-10 KIFA RCAF Aircraftman 1st Class Oscar David Brownfield 2023-07-03
1940-June-10 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer John James Cotter 2024-04-30
1940-June-10 KIFA RCAF Aircraftman 1st Class James Edward Nesbitt 2023-06-30
1940-June-10 KIFA MD Civilian Norman Mcleod Rogers 2021-04-15

Known Squadron Assignments: ;145

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7370. With No. 11 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS when this unit transferred to Eastern Air Command on 1 April 1940. Later with No. 145 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Torbay, Newfoundland. Flew this squadron's first operation, patrol on 2 June 1942. Crashed 14 February 1943, while on a navigation exercise from Torbay to Dartmouth. Came down 11 miles from Dartmouth. Wreckage not located until November 1943. 6 fatalities, including US Army passenger. 0000-01-01
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1940-February-10 Taken on Strength No. 11 (BR) Squadron 2019-08-20
1943-February-14 Accident: 145 Squadron Loc: Between Torbay & Dartmouth Names: Hook | Rolfe | Snell | Stick | Thompson | Watterson
1943-February-14 Accident: 145 Squadron Loc: Between Torbay & Dartmouth Names: Hook | Rolfe | Snell | Stick | Thompson | Watterson
   1943-October-20 Struck off Strength Struck off at No. 21 Sub-Repair Depot 2019-08-20
1943-February-14 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant John Thomas Hook 2023-04-25
1943-February-14 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Robert Cecil Rolfe 2023-06-22
1943-February-14 KIFA US Army First Lieutenant Eugene Estes SNELL 2021-03-01
1943-February-14 KIFA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class James Robin Stick 2023-04-25
1943-February-14 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer William Hector Thompson 2023-01-19
1943-February-14 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Thomas Albert Kidd Watterson 2023-03-04

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7371. With No. 11 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS, coded "OY*N", with non-standard fairing in place of turret. Still with this unit when it transferred to Eastern Air Command in April 1940. With the Test & Development Establishment at RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario from 25 November 1941. Category B damage at Lismore, NS at 14:00 on 9 January 1942, when bad weather and low fuel resulted in a gear up forced landing. Repaired on site at Dartmouth by 11 Squadron and mobile party from Clark Ruse Aircraft from 12 January 1942. Ownership reverted to Eastern Air Command on 14 January 1942. To workshop reserve at Dartmouth on 18 February 1942. Back with 11 Squadron from 27 April 1942. To Clark Ruse Aircraft from 16 November 1942 to 30 April 1943, then back to Eastern Air Command. To No. 1 Training Command on 10 July 1943, for radio experiments with No. 1 (C) Flight. To No. 6 Repair Depot at Trenton on 29 June 1944, after a Category B crash. Became instructional airframe A 420 on 5 July 1944, for use at Mountain View, Ontario. With No. 1 Air Command when struck off. 2022-01-15
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1940-February-10 Taken on Strength No. 11 (BR) Squadron 2019-08-20
1942-January-09 Accident: 11 Squadron Loc: Lismore Pictou County Names: James | Pilcher | Rhea | Russell
1943-October-06 Accident: 1 Communication Ferry Flight Loc: Main Aerodrome Names: Culver | Furrow | Smith | Wright | Wyatt
1944-May-23 Accident: 1 COMM Squadron Loc: Toronto Ontario Names: Fulton | Schott | Smith | Walker
   1944-July-05 Classified Instructional A 420 2020-06-10
   1945-July-23 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 11 (BR)

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7375. Operated by No. 11 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS, coded "OY*O". Still with this unit when it transferred to Eastern Air Command in April 1940. Category A crash at Dartmouth at 06:05 on 3 October 1941. Ran off end of runway on takeoff and caught fire, later exploded. All crew escaped before explosion. 2022-01-16
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1940-February-22 Taken on Strength No. 11 (BR) Squadron 2019-08-20
1941-October-03 Accident: 11 Squadron Loc: Dartmouth Aerodrome Names: Mcinnis | Merril | Quirt | Taylor
   1941-November-06 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce by No. 4 Repair Depot 2019-08-20

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7380. With the Test & Development Establishment at RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario, in September 1939, still with RAF serial. Used by Communications Flight at Rockcliffe, Ontario for VIP transportation early 1940, still with RAF serial. Carried 11 doctors from Rockcliffe to Trenton on 2 May 1940, while only equipped with 2 passenger seats. Served with No. 13 (OT) Squadron, RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC from 6 August 1940. To storage at Patricia Bay on 13 September 1940. To Western Air Command on 3 March 1941. To Eastern Air Command on 30 July 1942. To Clark Ruse Aircraft from 17 August to 3 September 1942. Back to Eastern Air Command when completed. To workshop reserve at No. 6 Repair Depot on 13 October 1943 for overhaul. To storage with No. 1 Training Command on 17 May 1944. Noted as pending disposal on 24 June 1944, with 1225:00 total time, 8:35 since overhaul. To No. 4 Bombing & Gunnery School at Fingal, Ontario on 14 October 1944, for use as training aid. Became instructional airframe A 430 on that date. To No. 1 Air Command with this unit on 15 January 1945. Became instructional airframe A 445 on 7 May 1945, used at RCAF Station Aylmer, Ontario. Had been RCAF 774. Pending disposal from 3 January 1948. 2022-01-15
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1940-February-03 Taken on Strength Communications Flight at RCAF Station 2019-08-20
   1944-October-14 Classified Instructional CA A 430 2020-06-12
   1945-May-07 Classified Instructional CA A 445 2020-06-12
   1948-February-16 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal 2019-08-20

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7381. To RCAF Station Trenton in May 1940, back to Rockcliffe on 3 July 1940. Served with No. 13 (OT) Squadron, RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC from August 1940. Later with the Photographic Flight, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, still carrying No. 13 Squadron codes. Operated by No. 120 (BR) Squadron from RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC, 3 March to July 1941, coded "MX*R". To Eastern Air Command on 30 July 1942. To Clarke Ruse Aircraft for overhaul, 18 to 25 September 1942. Back to Eastern Air Command when completed. To Clarke Ruse again, 22 June 1943 to 25 January 1944. To storage with Eastern Air Command when completed. Reported in storage at No. 4 Repair Depot about this time, with 1269:00 total time, 1:30 since overhaul. Pending disposal from 28 June 1944. 2022-01-15
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1940-January-31 Taken on Strength No. 1 (E) Depot 2019-08-20
   1945-February-02 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;13

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7373. To RCAF Station Trenton on 15 May 1940. Back to Rockcliffe later that year. To NO. 13 (OT) Squadron at RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC before end of 1940. Operated by No. 120 (BR) Squadron from RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC, March to July 1941, coded "MX*T" and then “AN*T”. Category A crash at Tsehum Harbour, BC (now part of Sidney, BC at 13:55 on 21 February 1942. Pilot overshot on landing attempt at Patricia Bay, failed to raise the flaps, and dived into the sea. Two bodies recovered, including pilot Sgt. W.M. Hatfield. Aircraft was on loan from 3 OTU to No. 115 Squadron at the time. 2022-01-15
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1940-January-31 Taken on Strength No. 1 (E) Depot 2019-08-20
1942-February-21 Accident: 13 (OT) Squadron Loc: Shoal Bay Names: Hatfield | Hutchinson
   1942-March-25 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20
1942-February-21 KIA RCAF Sergeant William Miller Hatfield 2023-05-12
1942-February-21 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Bruce Hutchinson 2023-05-24

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7382. To RCAF Station Trenton in March 1940. Back to Rockcliffe on 28 June 1940. To Test & Development Establishment at Rockcliffe on 12 July 1940, reported with RAF serial while there. To storage on 1 October 1940. To Eastern Air Command on 2 June 1941, for use by No. 11 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS. Destroyed in crash at Dartmouth at 13:45 on 15 October 1941. Aircraft swung on takeoff, collapsing undercarriage. Ensuing fire led to explosion. No fatalities in 4 member crew, but all severely burned. 0000-01-01
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1940-January-31 Taken on Strength No. 1 (E) Depot 2019-08-20
1941-October-15 Accident: 11 Squadron Loc: Dartmouth Nova Scotia Names: Lashley | Merrill | Porter | Quirt
   1941-November-06 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to produce by No. 4 Repair Depot 2022-01-15

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7384. Taken on strength at No. 11 (BR) Sqn at RCAF Stn Dartmouth, NS. To EAC with this unit in Apr 1940. Cat “A” crash at Dartmouth at 14:15 hrs on 26 May 1941. During the landing after a low-level bombing practice mission, the a/c swung to the right, collapsing the port u/c and bursting into flame. The ensuing fire led to an explosion of the bombs onboard. There were no injuries in the 4-person crew 2022-01-15
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1940-February-27 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1941-May-26 Accident: 11 Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Dartmouth Names: Butts | Crossley | Merril
   1941-July-24 Struck off Strength Cat “A” write-off 2022-01-15

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7383. To RCAF Station Trenton form May 1940. Operated by No. 11 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS from 8 June 1940. To Clark Ruse Aircraft from 11 November 1942 to 27 March 1943, and again from 9 August to 30 September 1943. Back to Eastern Air Command each time. Category B crash in early 1944. To No. 21 Repair Depot on 25 April 1944, for write off. To No. 4 Repair Depot for scrapping, on 7 June 1944. 0000-01-01
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1940-January-31 Taken on Strength No. 1 (E) Depot 2019-08-20
1944-April-24 Accident: 4 Repair Depot Loc: Rcaf Station Moncton Names: D'aoust | Frank | Nixon | Smith | Spence
   1944-July-29 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7387. Taken on strength at No. 11 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS. To stored reserve at Dartmouth on 15 July 1940, with No. 4 Repair Depot. To Clarke Ruse Aircraft from 4 August 1941 to 20 June 1942. To Eastern Air Command when completed. Scheduled for work at Canadian Wright at Montreal from 22 December 1942, this may have been cancelled. To No. 4 Repair Depot on 4 January 1943, back to EAC on 11 May 1943. Loaned to Central Training Establishment from 21 October to 13 December 1943, probably for use at an Operational Training Unit. To No. 3 Training Command on 13 February 1944. To storage on 1 June 1944. Pending disposal from 16 June 1944. To No. 1 Air Command on 15 January 1945, still pending disposal. Stored at No. 9 Repair Depot, where it was reported with 148:20 total time, 15:30 since overhaul. Sold to L. Hardy of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. 0000-01-01
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1940-February-27 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1940-June-05 Accident: 11 Squadron Loc: Dartmouth Nova Scotia Names: Blane | Gillis | Hanson
1942-December-31 Accident: HUDSON TRAINING UNIT Loc: Aerodrome Names: Leonard | Loader | Love | Thompson
   1945-February-12 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal 2019-08-20

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7385. With the Test & Development Establishment at RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario, probably shortly after delivery. Operated by No. 11 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS from 9 August 1940. To storage on 11 November 1940, issued from storage on 4 March 1941. To Clark Ruse Aircraft for accident repairs, 11 September to 5 November 1941. Had 114:05 logged time when it arrived there. To Eastern Air Command when completed, for use by No. 11 Squadron. Category B damage at RCAF Station Torbay, Newfoundland, at 12:45 on 16 September 1942. Reported by No. 145 (BR) Squadron. Struck by wing tip of Hudson BW621 while on the ground. To storage on 22 May 1944. Pending disposal from 28 June 1944. Stored at No. 4 Repair Depot, where it was reported with 1004:45 total time. 0000-01-01
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1940-February-16 Taken on Strength No. 1 Training Command 2019-08-20
1941-September-04 Accident: 11 Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bebee | James | Oldham | Taylor
1942-September-16 Accident: 145 Squadron Loc: Rcaf Stnorth Torbay Names: Buchanan | Butler | Hollinger | Ross
   1945-February-02 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for sale 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;11

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7386. To RCAF Station Ottawa on 18 July 1940. With No. 11 (BR) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS from August 1940. To storage at Halifax from 11 November 1940 to 4 March 1941. Back with No. 11 Squadron when it crashed on Sable Island at 11:40 on 3 June 1941. Struck radio tower in poor visibility, while searching for missing Bolingbroke (possibly 9007). 0000-01-01
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1940-February-16 Taken on Strength No. 1 Training Command 2019-08-20
1941-June-03 Accident: 11 Squadron Loc: Sable Is Names: Bell | Craig | Dillworth | Gillis | Snow
   1941-July-25 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20
1941-June-03 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Frederick Judson Bell 2023-01-31
1941-June-03 KIA RCAF Corporal Douglas Earl Craig 2023-06-30
1941-June-03 KIA RCAF Aircraftman 1st Class Gordon Allen Dilworth 2022-01-08
1941-June-03 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Ivan Lloyd George Gillis 2023-04-25
1941-June-03 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Gerald Barclay Snow 2021-07-25

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7388. To RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario on 15 May 1940. Back to Rockcliffe on 2 July 1940. Operated by No. 11 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS from 9 August 1940. Stored at Halifax from 11 November 1940 to 4 March 1941. With the Test & Development Establishment at RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario from 17 January 1942, for fitting of special radio equipment. Back to No. 11 Squadron from 29 January 1942. To Central Training Establishment on 21 October 1943, probably for use by an Operational Training Unit. To storage on 22 May 1944. Stored at No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB, where it was reported with 1079:35 total time. Pending disposal from 28 June 1944. 0000-01-01
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1940-March-16 Taken on Strength No. 1 (E) Depot 2019-08-20
   1945-February-02 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for sale 2019-08-20

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7389. With the Test & Development Establishment at RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario, probably from 18 July 1940. Operated by No. 11 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS from 14 August 1940. To storage at Dartmouth on 11 November 1940. Back to No. 11 Squadron on 29 May 1941, to replace 778 which had crashed. To No. 145 (BR) Squadron, Eastern Air Command, RCAF Station Torbay, Newfoundland, in 1942. While with this squadron, sank u-boat U-685, 320 miles east of St. John's. The squadron's fourth attack, and EAC's second kill. Loaned to the Central Training Establishment on 21 October 1943, for use by an Operational Training Unit. Severely damaged in early 1944, no details. To No. 4 Repair Depot on 15 February 1944, for salvage. Discussion in documents of using fuselage as training aid at Sydney, NS but not clear if this was done. 0000-01-01
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1940-February-21 Taken on Strength No. 12 Technical Detachment 2019-08-20
1944-February-07 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Berghofer | Donnelly | McCrea
   1944-May-16 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7390. To RCAF Stn Ottawa on 18 Jul 1940. Operated by No. 11 (BR) Sqn, RCAF Stn Dartmouth, NS, from late Jul 1940, coded "OY*U". Destroyed at Dartmouth at 22:33 hrs on 30 Jul 1942, while being operated by No. 145 (BR) Sqn. On a practice navigation flight to pick up 2,000 lbs of priority Hudson spares at Dartmouth, the a/c overshot the runway, caught fire and burned out. The a/c was carrying a 4 -person crew and 4 passengers; 5 of the 8 personnel onboard were seriously injured. The a/c remains were assigned to No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 10 Aug 1942 for scrapping. 2022-01-15
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1940-February-26 Taken on Strength No. 12 Technical Detachment 2019-08-20
1942-July-30 Accident: 145 Squadron Loc: Rcaf Stnorth Dartmouth Names: Dickle | Harron | La Jambe | Lindsay | Pritchard | Ross | Todd | Todor
   1943-January-21 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20

Diverted from RAF order, tested and delivered marked with RAF serial N7391. To Eastern Air Command in April 1940, when No. 11 Squadron cam under this Command. With the Test & Development Establishment at RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario from 4 February 1942, for installation of radar. Completed by 21 April 1942, back to No. 11 (BR) Squadron. Loaned to the Central Training Establishment on 21 October 1943, for use by an Operational Training Unit. To storage on 22 May 1944. Pending disposal with Eastern Air Command from 28 June 1944. Stored at No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB, where it was reported with 1294:20 total time. 0000-01-01
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1940-March-11 Taken on Strength No. 11 (BR) Squadron 2019-08-20
   1945-February-02 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for sale 2019-08-20

Allocated RAF serial BW440, delivered direct to RCAF. 0000-01-01

Allocated RAF serial BW441, delivered direct to RCAF. 0000-01-01

Known Squadron Assignments: ;VP-82

USN Hudson IIIA aircraft #41-23592 crashed at Wadi Seidna, Sudan. Pilot Officer EF Bent (RCAF) and Pilot Officer PH Wyman (RCAF) were killed. 2022-01-20
1942-August-20 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Elroy Fenwick Bent 2023-08-05
1942-August-20 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Peter Hersey Wyman 2023-08-05

Fuselage only, ex RAF FK524. This aircraft was ordered by the RAF in November 1941, but crashed in North America before being delivered to the UK. Canadian serial number cancelled shortly after being issued, not used as an Instructional Airframe. Not clear if any part of this aircraft was ever in the hands of the RCAF. Struck off by the RAF in July 1944. 2020-06-13
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1943-November-03 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
   1943-November-03 Classified Instructional A 334 2020-06-13

Known Squadron Assignments: ;279

279 Squadron (To See and Be Seen) (ASR Sqn) Hudson III aircraft #AE 519 OS-S crashed into the sea at St Ives Bay, Scotland. FS HR Bacon (RCAF) who served with #280 Sqn and was killed. Please see WO2 RM Long (RCAF) for full casualty list and details. 2022-01-15
1943-March-29 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Harry Robert Bacon 2021-08-26
1943-March-29 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Lindsay Vaughan Fletcher 2021-08-06
1943-March-29 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Robert Michael Long 2021-08-13
1943-March-29 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Edwin Pearce Povey 2021-08-12

Known Squadron Assignments: ;62

#62 Squadron (Insperato). FS Margolis was killed when his Hudson aircraft #AE 523 was shot down at Akyab, India. 2022-01-15
1942-July-09 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Albert Abraham Margolis 2021-08-14

Known Squadron Assignments: ;1444

#1444 Flight. Hudson III aircraft #AE 524 was enroute to the Middle East and crashed on take-off from the aerodrome at Luqa, Malta. Five RAF airmen were also killed. 2022-01-15
1942-April-09 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Keith Lockhart Hardy 2023-07-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;1PRU

RAF Ferry Command Hudson III aircraft #AE 545 was lost enroute from Canada to England. In April of 1941 2022-01-15

1941-September-21 KIFA RAF Civilian Radio Officer Robert Desmond Anderson 2023-01-30
1941-September-21 KIFA RAF Flight Lieutenant Robert Frederick Leavitt DFC 2023-01-30
1941-September-21 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Elwood Wallace McFall 2023-01-30

Known Squadron Assignments: ;1444

#1444 Flight. Hudson III aircraft #AE 550 crashed 2022-01-15
1942-March-11 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer William James Atkinson 2021-12-30
1942-March-11 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Royce Norval Coleman 2024-04-29

Known Squadron Assignments: ;62

#62 Squadron (Insperato). Hudson III aircraft AE 574 shot down on operation near Rangoon, Burma on a reconnaissance flight. Pilot Officer JW Arthurs (RCAF) missing. 2022-01-15
1942-April-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John William Arthurs 2023-08-01
1942-April-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Richard Aubrey Baker 2023-07-18
1942-April-29 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Lloyd George MacLeod 2022-01-05

Known Squadron Assignments: ;161

#161 Squadron. Hudson III aircraft #AE 595 lost. 2022-01-15
1945-March-21 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 1st Class Frank Emmanuel Gray 2021-08-07
1945-March-21 KIA RCAF Flying Officer George Staudt Ragan 2021-08-11

Known Squadron Assignments: ;6 OTU

#6 Operational Training Unit. Hudson aircraft #AE 627 crashed one mile south-west of Thornaby. FSs H.B. Shaver, F.H. Wright, and one RAF airman were also killed. 2022-01-15
1942-September-04 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Alan Montgomery 2021-08-16
1942-September-04 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Howard Bruce Shaver 2021-08-01
1942-September-04 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Frank Harris Wright 2021-07-06

Known Squadron Assignments: ;608

608 Squadron (Omnibus Ungulis). Hudson aircraft crashed. 2022-01-15
1943-May-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Roger Wallace Haven 2023-07-14
1943-May-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Walter Wilson Nichol 2023-07-14
1943-May-16 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Clarence Lloyd Stevens 2023-07-14

Known Squadron Assignments: ;48

#48 Sqn (Forte Et Fidele) Hudson V aircraft #AE 645 OY-N lost during operations over enemy-held territory NW of Bergen, Norway. S/L KD Bruce (RAF)(Can), Flight Sergeant R Brock (RAFVR), Flight Sergeant RF Chisholm (RAFVR) and Flying Officer Dr GB Will (RAFVR) (also the station medical officer) were killed, Pilot Officer HA Sullivan (RAFVR) missing, presumed killed 2022-01-15
1942-April-11 KIA RAF Squadron Leader Kenneth Douglas Bruce 2023-07-23

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

With No. 407 Squadron, RCAF, coded "RR*R". Lost on an anti-shipping strike on 5 November 1941, all 4 crew killed or missing. 2022-01-15
1941-November-05 KIA RCAF Sergeant Guy Nelson Bryan 2023-09-03
1941-November-05 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer James Francis Codville 2024-03-10
1941-November-05 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Francis Thomas James 2023-01-01

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

Served with No. 407 (GR) Squadron, RCAF c.1941/42, coded RR*A". Shot down by flak off coast of Holland on 15 May 1942 during attack on shipping, one of 5 squadron aircraft lost in that mission. All 4 crew killed.
1942-May-15 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Gordon Forbes Alger 2023-07-26
1942-May-15 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Melvin Knight 2021-10-08
1942-May-15 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Gerald Frederick MacNutt 2021-09-09
1942-May-15 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant George Arthur Tooth 2021-03-14

Known Squadron Assignments: ;53

#53 Squadron. Hudson aircraft #AM 542 failed to return from an anti-sub sortie. Four RAF members of the crew were also killed. 2022-01-15
1942-April-22 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Stephen George Goatley 2022-01-15

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

With No. 407 Squadron, RCAF when it failed to return from patrol on 20 January 1943. Last reported position was 40 miles off Orfordness.
1943-January-20 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Boyd Anderson 2023-07-27
1943-January-20 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Leonard William Birkinshaw 2023-08-20
1943-January-20 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Frederick Thomas Mattison 2021-08-16
1943-January-20 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Omer Kenneth Middleton 2021-08-16

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

Served with No. 407 (CS) Squadron, RCAF 1941, coded "RR*E". Made this units first attack, on a motor vessel north of Borkum on 7/8 September 1941. No observed results. Flown by squadron CO W/C Styles on this mission. Failed to return from a convoy attack off Borkum on 5 December 1941. Departed in bad weather. Belived to have been shot down over North Sea, 22 miles west of Borkum Island. All 4 crew missing without a trace, including brothers Sgt. G.M. Drennan and Sgt. J.D. Drennan, both gunners.
1941-December-05 KIA RCAF Sergeant Gerald Maxwell Drennan 2024-01-26
1941-December-05 KIA RCAF Sergeant James Douglas Drennan 2024-01-26
1941-December-05 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Scott Tudhope Calder Thomson 2021-07-17

Known Squadron Assignments: ;53

#53 Squadron. Hudson aircraft #AM 563 was carrying 4,250 lbs. of bombs and failed to return from a night operation. Pilot Officer R. Fairbairn was also killed. One RAAF member of the crew missing believed killed, and one RAF crew member was taken Prisoner of War 2022-01-15
1942-February-24 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Keith Selwyn Davies 2024-01-03
1942-February-24 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Douglas Fairbairn 2022-01-07

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

#407 Demon Squadron (To Hold On High). Hudson aircraft crashed.
2022-01-15
1942-February-17 KIA RCAF Sergeant William John Thomas Flagg 2022-08-14
1942-February-17 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Arthur William Goulding 2021-08-07
1942-February-17 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Clarke Harris 2022-10-18
1942-February-17 KIA RCAF Sergeant Raymond George Edward Whale 2021-07-09

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

With No. 407 Squadron, RCAF when lost on 28 April 1942. Left Bircham Newton at 20:20 local for night patrol along Dutch coast. Last seen by other aircraft on same mission at about 22:15. All 4 crew missing, presumed dead.
1942-April-28 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Ronald Hancock DFM 2021-08-09
1942-April-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Russell John Majeau MiD 2021-08-14
1942-April-28 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph Albert Richard 2021-08-09
1942-April-28 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Albert Edward George Wheadon 2021-07-09

Known Squadron Assignments: ;608

#608 Squadron (Omnibus Ungulis). The pilot of Hudson aircraft #AM 572 was endeavoring to land in adverse weather when he crashed 1,000 yards east of the Blida aerodrome. One crew member, not Canadian, were also killed. 2022-01-15
1943-March-06 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Alexander Alan O'Brien 2023-07-14

Noted as "Canadian equipped" on 29 May 1942, in signal from RCAF liaison office in New York. To stored reserve with Eastern Air Command on 22 May 1944. Noted as a "financial adjustment" when struck off (i.e., part of an exchange of aircraft, without an exchange of cash). To No. 45 Group, RAF at Dorval, Quebec when struck off. 2011-08-20
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1942-July-20 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
   1944-September-21 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

Served with No. 407 (GR) Squadron, RCAF 1941, Lost on an anti E-boat patrol on 10 October 1941, all 4 crew missing. 2022-01-20
1941-October-10 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Hugh Francis Hegarty 2022-09-06
1941-October-10 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Donald Stuart Mather 2021-09-09
1941-October-10 KIA RCAF Sergeant Charles John Frederick McCrum 2021-09-09

Known Squadron Assignments: ;500

#500 County of Kent Squadron (Quo Fato Vocent). Hudson aircraft failed to return from operations. 2022-01-15
1942-September-17 KIA RAF Sergeant Raphael Finkelstone-Sayliss 2022-01-15

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

Served with No. 407 (GR) Squadron, RCAF c.1941/42, coded "RR*P". In use by December 1941. Was reported as "RR*D" when it failed to return from a strike mission on 12 or 14 February 1942.
1942-February-12 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Lonsdale Cowperthwaite MiD 2023-11-27
1942-February-12 KIA RCAF Sergeant William Beverley Lenover 2021-10-12
1942-February-12 KIA RCAF Flying Officer John Ernest Lister 2021-10-12

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

Served with No. 407 (GR) Squadron, RCAF c.1941/43, . Crashed while attempting to land at Donna Nook on 22 January 1942, after returning early from a strike mission. Bombs went off after crashing, killing all the crew and 13 rescuers. 2022-01-20
1942-January-22 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Roland Edison Dann 2021-09-17
1942-January-22 KIA RCAF Sergeant John Clifton Gaudet 2022-01-07
1942-January-22 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Harry Arthur Wilkins 2021-07-08

Known Squadron Assignments: ;206

#206 Squadron (Nihil Nos Effugit). Hudson aircraft #AM 606 lost whilst on a bombing attack over enemy territory, presumed enemy action. W/C. H.D. Cooke (RAF) and FS G. McGlynn (RAF) were also killed. S/L Cook (RAF) and FS Hubbard (RAF) missing believed killed. 2022-01-15
1942-June-25 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer James Cameron Watson 2022-11-26

Known Squadron Assignments: ;RAE

Royal Aircraft Establishment, General Duties Flight, RAF Farnborough Hudson AM 607 crashed 2022-01-15
1945-April-27 KIFA RAF Warrant Officer Gordon Henry Dixon 2021-05-15

Known Squadron Assignments: ;1OTU

#1 Operational Training Unit. Hudson aircraft flew into a hillside at Kirkrnichael, Isle of Man. FSs C.W. Kelner, R.E. Wells, and one of the crew, not Canadian, were also killed. 2022-01-15
1942-September-21 KIFA RAFVR Sergeant Sidney Alfred Gardner 2022-05-04
1942-September-21 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Joseph Theodore Louis Philippe Gilbert 2021-08-07
1942-September-21 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Clarence William Kelner 2021-08-12
1942-September-21 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Ralph Ernest Wells 2023-11-14

Known Squadron Assignments: ;233

#233 Squadron (Ymlaen). Hudson aircraft #AM 612 did not return after a shipping strike. Three RAF crew members missing believed killed. 2022-01-15
1942-February-17 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Lloyd Norwood Sarles 2021-08-04

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

Served with No. 407 (GR) Squadron, RCAF c.1941/43, . Failed to return from attack on shipping on 15 May 1942, one of 5 squadron aircraft lost in that mission. May have been shot down by night fighter. All 4 crew presumed killed, bodies never recovered. 2022-01-20
1942-May-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Gordon Frederick Cook 2024-04-01
1942-May-15 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Wilburt Mclarty Crane 2023-12-16
1942-May-15 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 1st Class Joseph William Daubner 2023-12-19
1942-May-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Arthur Rodolphe Roland Farley 2021-09-23

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

With No. 407 Squadron, RCAF, Failed to return from convoy attack mission off Frisian Islands on 8 February 1942. May have strayed over mainland and been shot down by flak. All 4 crew killed. 2022-01-20
1942-February-08 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Ryan McCulloch 2021-09-23

Known Squadron Assignments: ;220

#220 Squadron (We Observe Unseen). Hudson aircraft failed to return from operations. Three of the crew, not Canadians, missing believed killed.
2022-01-15
1941-October-31 KIA RAF Flight Lieutenant George Colquhoun Birchall 2023-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407;6

Served with No. 407 (GR) Squadron, RCAF #6 Operational Training Unit. Hudson aircraft was totally destroyed by fire after it crashed at Leen Bridge Farm, Yorkshire, England. 2022-01-20
1942-October-01 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Albert Royston Sanger 2021-08-04

Known Squadron Assignments: ;1OTU

#1 Operational Training Unit. Hudson aircraft #AM 624 crashed and burned 800 feet up the side of Dent Fell, Uldale, Cheshire, England 2022-01-15
1941-December-21 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Earle Douglas Parrish 2023-01-25

Known Squadron Assignments: ;59

#59 Squadron (Ab Uno Disce Omnes). Hudson aircraft #JM 632 crashed in the sea one mile off Donna Nook, Lincolnshire, England. Three RAF crew members missing believed killed. 2022-01-15
1942-May-17 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Donald Charles MacDonald 2023-04-29

Known Squadron Assignments: ;59;50

#59 Squadron (Ab Uno Disce Omnes). Hudson V aircraft #AM 639 lost. 2022-01-15
1942-April-28 KIA RAFVR Sergeant Henry Francis Neary 2021-08-17
1942-April-28 KIA RAF Sergeant Eric Stanley Normore 2021-08-17

Known Squadron Assignments: ;608

#608 Squadron (Omnibus Ungulis). Hudson aircraft #AM 642 failed to return from night bombing operations 2022-01-15

1941-November-05 KIA RAFVR Eric William Elkington 2023-02-15
1941-November-05 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Francis James Hazlett 2023-02-15
1941-November-05 KIA RAFVR Joseph Sansome 2023-02-15
1941-November-05 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Gordon Richardson Yeates 2023-02-15

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

With No. 407 Squadron, RCAF, coded "J". Fell into a hill in Pembrokeshire during low level bombing practice on 3 November 1942. 2 crew killed instantly, one died later from injuries. One of 2 Squadron aircraft lost on bombing practice on that day (see AM648). 2020-11-06
1942-November-03 KIA RCAF Sergeant Gilbert Gerard Belec 2020-11-06
1942-November-03 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Leslie Eric Letchford Huddleston 2021-03-02
1942-November-03 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Donald Frederick Page 2021-09-29

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

With No. 407 Squadron, RCAF. Crashed into the sea off Newquay during low level bombing practice on 3 November 1942. All 6 occupants killed or missing. One of 2 Squadron aircraft lost on bombing practice on that day (see AM648).
1942-November-03 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Carl Clinton Shook 2021-07-30
1942-November-03 KIA RCAF Sergeant Michael Bernard Valette 2021-07-13
1942-November-03 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Raymond Oliver Worthington 2021-10-02

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

#407 Demon Squadron (To Hold On High). Hudson aircraft #AM 650 was carrying 2 x 250 lb. and 6 x 100 lb. bombs and was engaged in an anti-shipping strike off the Dutch Coast when it was hit by flak. The aircraft burst into flames, hit the water and exploded. 2022-01-20
1942-May-29 PoW RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class John Frederick Clarke 2024-02-27
1942-May-29 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant William Patrick McCarthy 2021-08-17
1942-May-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Charles Franklin Race 2021-08-11
1942-May-29 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Robert Moses Dorrien Robinson 2021-08-08

Known Squadron Assignments: ;1OTU

#1 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit. Hudson V aircraft #AM 676 crashed in the sea. 2022-01-15
1942-August-25 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Robert Douglas McKenzie 2023-01-25
1942-August-25 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Harold Ray McMillan 2021-08-17
1942-August-25 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Ernest Lloyd Randall 2021-08-11

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

Served with No. 407 (GR) Squadron, RCAF c.1941/42, coded RR*B". Failed to return from attack on shipping on 15 May 1942, one of 5 squadron aircraft lost in that mission. Seen to score a hit on one freighter before bursting into flames and crashing into sea. All 4 crew killed. 2020-11-07
1942-May-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer William Alfred Haliburton 2021-02-24
1942-May-15 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Aston James Walter Pottle 2021-02-24
1942-May-15 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Leighton Ogilvie Scott 2021-02-24
1942-May-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Lloyd Newton Skinner 2021-02-24

Known Squadron Assignments: ;53

#53 Squadron. Hudson aircraft #AM 683 was engaged in a bombing operation when it was shot down near Den Helder, at Hvisduinen, Holland. Three RAF members of the crew were also killed 2022-01-15
1942-May-08 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Charles John Wyllie 2021-05-30

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

With No. 407 Squadron, RCAF, coded "RR*O". Shot down off Hanstholm harbour, Denmark, on 5 April (or 5 May?) 1942. 4 crew killed. Had departed Bircham Newton, UK, on a Saucer patrol (defined route for a coastal patrol). Was attacking small German vessel VP 1211, shot down by cannon fire from this ship and shore based battery. Crashed 700 metres off coast after being hit in cockpit and fuel tanks, only 3 bodies recovered. 2020-11-05
1942-April-05 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Samuel Douglas Dean 2023-08-30
1942-April-05 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Arthur Kenneth Hamilton 2023-08-30
1942-April-05 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Joseph Frederic Paul Henri Lafreniere 2021-02-24
1942-April-05 KIA RCAF Sergeant Leo George Murphy 2023-08-30

Known Squadron Assignments: ;1OTU

#1 Operational Training Unit. Hudson aircraft crashed. 2022-01-15
1942-February-05 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer William Sydney Brown 2023-09-03
1942-February-05 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer James Hugh Watt 2023-01-25

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

#407 Demon Squadron (To Hold On High). Hudson aircraft lost.. 2022-01-15
1942-December-23 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant James Lloyd Ellam 2021-08-06
1942-December-23 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 1st Class Joseph Lucien Gaucher 2021-08-07
1942-December-23 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Charles Walter Woodward 2021-10-02

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

With No. 407 Squadron, RCAF, possibly coded "RR*D". Lost over North Sea on 6 April 1942. 4 crew killed. NOTE: some sources record this aircraft as being with 233 Squadron, RAF at time of loss. Has this aircraft been confused with AM684?
1942-April-06 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer James Donald Alexander Foley 2021-08-06
1942-April-06 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Norman Abraham Leckie 2021-08-13
1942-April-06 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Herman Mervyn Lowry 2021-08-14
1942-April-06 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 1st Class Daniel Allister McCann 2021-09-23

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

Served with No. 407 (GR) Squadron, RCAF c.1941/43 coded "RR*V". Shot down during mission to Dunkirk on 6 September 1942, all 4 crew killed.
1942-September-06 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Benson Arnold Wilson Coutts 2023-11-27
1942-September-06 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Charles Rootham Foskett 2022-01-07
1942-September-06 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Benjamin Leo Kohn 2023-08-25
1942-September-06 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer James Edward Wilkes 2024-02-21

Known Squadron Assignments: ;608

#608 Sqn RAF Hudson V aircraft #AM 710 missing over Mediterranean from an anti-submarine patrol off Sicily, possibly shot down by a Ju 88. Flying Officer BGS Bradley (RAAF)(Can), Flying Officer KC Cherer (RCAF), F/S EN Pettitt (RAAF) and FS LT Sheldon (RAAF) missing, believed killed. 2022-01-15
1943-September-14 KIA RAAF Flying Officer Basil George Sheridan Bradley 2023-07-21
1943-September-14 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Keith Claude Cherer 2024-02-12

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

#407 Demon Squadron (To Hold On High). Hudson aircraft #AM 711 was carrying practise bombs when it hit the mast of a wrecked ship that was used for bombing practise. The Hudson crashed into the sea and burned five miles off Selsey Bill, England. Sgts A.R. Thomas, A.N. Urquhart, G.J. Pearson, AC1 E.R. Watson, and one RAF airman were also killed. 2022-01-15
1942-June-13 KIA RCAF Flying Officer William Smith Patterson 2021-08-18
1942-June-13 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Gordon John Pearson 2021-08-18
1942-June-13 KIA RCAF Sergeant Arthur Roy Thomas 2021-07-20
1942-June-13 KIA RCAF Sergeant Alexander Norland Urquhart 2021-07-14
1942-June-13 KIA RCAF Aircraftman 1st Class Edward Roland Watson 2021-07-10

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

With No. 407 Squadron, RCAF when lost over the English Channel on 12 February 1942.
1942-February-12 KIA RCAF Squadron Leader William Andrew Anderson DFC 2023-07-27
1942-February-12 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Harold Victor Spicer 2021-10-02

Known Squadron Assignments: ;608

608 Squadron (Omnibus Ungulis). Hudson aircraft #AM 713 missing during operations. Three RAF members of the crew, WO L.C. Bonthan, Flight Sergeant B.H. Leek, and FS T.E. Willey were also killed. 2022-01-15
1942-April-20 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Albert Anthony Hemery 2023-07-23

Known Squadron Assignments: ;608

#608 Squadron (Omnibus Ungulis). Hudson aircraft lost. 2022-01-15
1941-November-23 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant George Noile Fullerton 2023-08-30
1941-November-23 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Russell Hamilton Macmillan 2023-08-30

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

#407 Demon Squadron (To Hold On High) RAF North Coates, Hudson V aircraft #AM 717 stalled on a landing approach and crashed one half mile from the southern perimeter of the airfield at North Coates while practicing take-offs and landings Pilot Officer RE Buckolz (RCAF)(USA), Flight Sergeant GC Bingley (RCAF) and Cpl C Naylor (RAF) were killed. 2022-01-15
1941-July-30 KIA RCAF Sergeant George Cuthbert Bingley 2022-01-15
1941-July-30 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Rollie Ernest Buckolz 2022-04-20

First assigned to No. 31 Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Debert, NS. Crashed at Debert at 16:45 on 7 January 1942. Lost visual contact with ground in a snow flurry during circuits and bumps, stalled on short final, collapsing undercarriage. Initially classified as Category B damage. Ownership to No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB for inspection on 10 January 1942. Arrived at Scoudouc on 15 January 1942. Request to write off approved by Eastern Air Command on 12 September 1942. 2011-08-20
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-January-07 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Canning | Weaver
   1942-September-15 Struck off Strength - Cat “A” write-off; struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2022-01-15

Known Squadron Assignments: ;31

First assigned to No. 31 Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Debert, NS. Category A crash at 19:56 on 7 June 1942, near Polly Lake, NS. Struck high ground while flying in bad weather. Pilot Pilot Officer J. Creighton and 2 crew members killed. Allocated to No. 4 Repair Depot for scrapping on 11 June 1942. 2011-08-20
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-June-07 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Folly Lake Nova Scotia Names: Creighton | King | Lennon
   1942-November-06 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20
1942-June-07 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer John Traquair Creighton 2023-06-23
1942-June-07 KIFA RAAF Sergeant N D King 2021-01-13
1942-June-07 KIFA RAF Sergeant D H Lennon 2023-01-02

First assigned to No. 31 Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Debert, NS. Category A crash at 16:15 on 27 August 1941, at the Debert aerodrome. Undercarriage collapsed on landing, aircraft severely damaged in resulting fire. 2011-08-20
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1941-August-27 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Elliott | Pitts | Powell | Price | Webb | Wilson
   1941-October-02 Struck off Strength Written off at No. 4 Repair Depot 2019-08-20

First assigned to No. 31 Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Debert, NS. Category B crash at 19:05 on 8 December 1942, when this aircraft swung after landing at the Debert aerodrome. To Clarke Ruse Aircraft for repairs, 14 December 1942 to 15 June 1943. Back to Eastern Air Command when completed. To storage on 22 May 1944. To 45 Group, RAF at Dorval, Quebec, as a financial adjustment. 2011-08-20
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-December-08 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Brigden | Springsteele | Wilkinson | Wilson | Young
   1944-September-21 Struck off Strength Struck off, transferred to RAF 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

#407 Demon Squadron (To Hold On High). Hudson aircraft lost. This was WO Cluff's sixth operational flight. addendum 2: See page 129. Hudson aircraft AM 728 was probably shot down by German Coastal batteries during a night anti-shipping strike in the North Sea off Holland. FS. D. Moss D.F.M., Sgt.s M.H. McDonald (RAF), and S.C. Herbert (RAF) were also killed 2022-01-15
1941-December-22 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Murray Cluff 2024-03-06
1941-December-22 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Donald Moss DFM 2021-09-28

Known Squadron Assignments: ;31

First assigned to No. 31 Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Debert, NS. Category B crash at 17:45 on 24 January 1942, at Debert aerodrome. Another Category B crash at Debert aerodrome at 16:53 on 1 August 1942. Ran off the runway on landing, starboard undercarriage collapsed. To Clark Ruse Aircraft for repairs, 11 August to 26 November 1942. Back to Eastern Air Command when completed. Reported missing from an operational flight from No. 31 OTU on 3 March 1944, flight was actually on 21 February 1944. 2 RAF crew never found. Ownership to No. 4 Repair Depot on same day. 2013-11-19
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-January-24 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Debert Nova Scotia Names: Henwell | Porter
1942-August-01 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Stevens | Wilson
1944-February-21 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Unknown Names: Bryant | Fitzner | Jonas | Robinson
   1944-April-19 Struck off Strength Cat “A” write-off 2022-01-15
1944-February-21 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant James Roy Bryant 2023-02-08
1944-February-21 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Carl Patrick Fitzner 2023-02-12
1944-February-21 KIFA RAF Sergeant G J Jonas 2020-09-16
1944-February-21 KIFA RAF Sergeant D Robinson 2020-09-16

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

Served with No. 407 (GR) Squadron, RCAF c.1941, coded RR*H". Lost on 15 December 1941, during anti-shipping mission on the Dutch coast. All 4 crew killed.
1941-December-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Leonard William Almquist 2023-07-26
1941-December-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer James Alexander Bitcon 2023-08-20
1941-December-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Percy George Ford 2022-08-17
1941-December-15 KIA RCAF Sergeant Wilfred Turley 2021-07-14

First assigned to No. 31 Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Debert, NS. To No. 6 Repair Depot at Trenton for crash repairs and overhaul, 24 January 1944. Scrapped at No. 6 Repair Depot 2011-08-20
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1944-January-16 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: 4 RD Scoudouc Names: Bolton | Maderson | McCullough
   1944-November-17 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;608

#608 Squadron (Omnibus Ungulis). Hudson aircraft #AM 735 failed to return from operations. 2022-01-15
1943-June-05 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Ralph Wesley Billing 2023-07-21

Noted as "Canadian equipped" in signal from RCAF liaison office in New York in May 1942. Category B crash, 6th August 1942. To No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 10 August 1942. Classified as Instructional Airframe A 248 on 28 December 1942. Had been RCAF AM736 2022-01-16
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1942-July-20 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-August-06 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Atherton | Ball | Barnes | Chatten | Clarke
   1942-December-28 Classified Instructional CA A 248 2020-06-12
   1945-February-22 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;31

First assigned to No. 31 OTU at RCAF Stn Debert, NS. Cat “A” crash at Debert aerodrome at 14:15 on 30 May 1942. After an oblique photography mission and following an engine failure, the pilot during a landing attempt lost control while attempting to avoid another aircraft on the runway and crashed into woods on aerodrome boundary. Pilot Officer A.E. Hoffman (pilot) was killed. Sgt’s W.D. Earl and A.C. Norris were seriously injured. To No. 4 Repair Depot for write off on 3 Jun 1942. 2022-01-16
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1942-January-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-May-30 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Earl | Hoffman | Norris
   1942-August-17 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20
1942-May-30 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Albert Hoffman 2023-01-02

First assigned to No. 31 Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Debert, NS. To workshop reserve at no. 4 Repair Depot, 28 July to 28 August 1942. Back to Eastern Air Command when completed. Category B crash, no details. To No. 4 Repair Depot for crash repairs on 14 December 1943. Transferred to Canada Car & Foundry on 10 January 1944. To workshop reserve at No. 21 Repair Depot on 8 April 1944. Noted on 21 February 1945 "for storage in whole state", when ownership returned to No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc. 2011-08-20
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1943-November-26 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Lawlor | Rainford
   1946-May-08 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

First assigned to No. 31 Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Debert, NS. Assigned to Clark Ruse Aircraft at Moncton, NB on 9 August 1943, but this may have been cancelled. To No. 21 Repair Depot on 3 April 1944 for disposal. Pending disposal, on books of Eastern Air Command, from 24 July 1944. Stored at Scoudouc, NB, still there on 25 March 1946. 2011-08-20
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
   1946-December-02 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal 2019-08-20

First assigned to No. 31 Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Debert, NS. To storage on 9 August 1944. To No. 45 Group, RAF at Dorval, as a financial adjustment. 2011-08-20
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
   1944-September-21 Ownership Transferred Transferred to RAF 2019-08-20
   1944-September-21 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

First assigned to No. 31 Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Debert, NS. Category B damage at Debert aerodrome at 22:05 on 31 May 1942. Pilot overcorrected swing on landing, causing undercarriage to collapse. To workshop reserve at No. 4 Repair Depot, Scoudouc, NB on 3 June 1942. To Clark Ruse Aircraft for crash repairs, 4 June 1942 to 30 June 1943. To Eastern Air Command when completed. To workshop reserve at No. 4 Repair Depot on 22 September 1943. To Clark Ruse Aircraft again on 30 November 1943. To No. 21 Repair Depot for disposal on 3 April 1944. 2011-08-20
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-May-31 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Ainsworth | Curtis | Davis | Sherriff
1943-September-18 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Charles | Pogson | Russell | Shipway
   1944-November-06 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

First assigned to No. 31 Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Debert, NS. To No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 3 September 1943, following a crash. To Clarke Ruse Aircraft for crash repairs, 9 August 1943 to 3 April 1944. To Eastern Air Command when completed. To storage on 9 August 1944. To No. 45 Group, RAF at Dorval, as a financial adjustment. 2013-08-25
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
   1944-September-21 Ownership Transferred Transferred to RAF 2019-08-20
   1944-September-21 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

First assigned to No. 31 Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Debert, NS. Crashed at Crumlin aerodrome at 16:30 on 22 July 1941, reported by No. 4 Air Observer School. Initially classified Category C, revised to Category B on 27 July 1941. To No. 1 Training Command and assigned workshop reserve with No. 12 Technical Detachment on 18 August 1941. Back to No. 31 OTU on 27 March 1942. To No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB for crash repairs, 4 September 1943 to 24 March 1944. To Eastern Air Command when completed. To storage on 9 August 1944. To No. 45 Group, RAF at Dorval, as a financial adjustment. 2013-08-30
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1941-July-22 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Connor | Hanes | Kearney
   1944-September-21 Ownership Transferred Transferred to RAF 2019-08-20
   1944-September-21 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: ;31

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on strength. Category B crash at Debert aerodrome at 15:45 on 7 October 1941. To Clark Ruse Aircraft for crash repairs on 6 November 1941, with 74:45 logged time. To Eastern Air Command and 31 OTU on 19 May 1942. Category B damage at Debert aerodrome again, at 17:30 on 28 February 1943. Swung on take off in strong cross wind, struck a snow bank. To Clark Ruse again for crash repairs, 8 March 1943. Crashed just after takeoff from Debert on 27 September 1943. Sgt. Poyntz and Sgt. B.W. Lambert, both RAF, plus F/Sgts. J. Creighton and S.S. McHardy killed. Ownership to No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 1 October 1943 for write off. 2013-09-07
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1941-October-07 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bookman | Richards | Whittaker
1943-February-28 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Norlen | Pull | Richards | Stepto
1943-September-22 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Creighton | Lambert | Mchardy | Poyntz
   1944-January-20 Struck off Strength Cat “A” write-off 2022-01-16
1943-September-22 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Creighton 2023-05-23
1943-September-22 KIFA RAF Sergeant Bryan Waldo Lambert 2023-01-02
1943-September-22 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Stanley Swanston McHardy 2023-01-02
1943-September-22 KIFA RAF Sergeant S W Poyntz 2021-01-13

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on strength. Category C2 damage at Debert aerodrome at 19:50 on 27 October 1941. Category C7 damage at Debert aerodrome at 20:05 on 9 May 1942. To workshop reserve at No. 4 Repair Depot, Scoudouc, NB on 7 July 1943. Assigned to Clark Ruse Aircraft on 14 July 1943, but this was apparently cancelled. To No. 21 Repair Depot for disposal on 3 April 1944. Pending disposal from 24 July 1944. By 25 March 1946 on the books of No. 5 Equipment Depot, still pending disposal. Stored at No. 4 Repair Depot. 2013-08-30
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1941-October-27 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Collenette | Hammon
1942-May-09 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Berlis | Moody | Price
1943-July-05 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Boulton | Bull | Clark | Gallagher | Murray
   1946-December-02 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Disposal Corporation for sale 2019-08-20

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on strength. Category B damage at Debert aerodrome at 18:15 on 31 January 1942. To No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB for crash repairs, 18 February to 30 March 1942. Back to Eastern Air Command and No. 31 OTU when completed. Category B damage at Moncton, NB at 16:45 on 30 May 1942, reported by No. 8 Service Flying Training School. To No. 4 Repair Depot for repairs. Serviceable on 18 September 1942, when it was returned to Eastern Air Command. Category A crash at Debert on 5 September 1943. To No. 4 Repair Depot for scrapping on 9 September 1943. 2013-08-31
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-January-31 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Debert Nova Scotia Names: Donkersley | Kennel
1942-May-30 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Moncton New Brunswick Names: Knight | Simpson
1942-December-11 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Raf Stnorth Charlottetown Names: Charters | Goodwin | Gulliver | Pettigrew
1943-September-04 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Clothier | Luxford | Morrison | Rushworth
   1943-December-01 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on strength. Category B damage at Debert aerodrome at 04:40 on 17 July 1942. Nosed over on landing, due to heavy braking. To No. 4 Repair Depot for crash repairs, 20 July to 8 December 1942. Back to Eastern Air Command when completed, delivered on 7 January 1943. To No. 4 Repair Depot for overhaul and repair of fuel tank leak on 31 January 1944. Pending disposal with Eastern Air Command from 31 July 1944. Stored at No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, where it was noted with 1224:30 total time, never overhauled. By 26 March 1946 on the books of Maintenance Command, stored at No. 5 Equipment Depot at Scoudouc, NB. 2014-01-28
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2020-10-27
1942-July-17 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Armstrong | McCafferty
   1946-December-02 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;31

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on strength. Still with this Unit when it received Category B damage at Summerside, PEI at 16:00 on 14 November 1941. To No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB for crash repairs with 167:20 logged time. Back to Eastern Air Command on 29 July 1942. Category C7 damage at Debert at 14:30 on 16 June 1942. Category A crash at Doddridge, NS (about 14 miles south-west of Debert aerodrome) on 14 January 1944. Struck high ground while practice descent through cloud procedures. Pilot Officer J.A. Gordon, RAF killed, three other crew members survived. To No. 4 Repair Depot for scrapping on 14 January 1944. 2022-01-16
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1941-November-14 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Summerside Pei Names: Hodge | Moran | Winstanley
1942-June-16 Accident: 4 Repair Depot Loc: Debert Nova Scotia Names: Beamish | Gilbert | Goodwin | Konchak | Urquhart
1944-January-06 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Doddridge Nova Scotia Names: Bertie | Easton | Gordon | Jeffrey
   1944-April-04 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20
1944-January-06 KIFA RAF Pilot Officer John Alastair Gordon 2024-04-01

Known Squadron Assignments: ;31

With No. 31 OTU at Debert, NS when taken on strength. The a/c went missing on a night navigations exercise on 13 Sep 1942. There were no anomalies reported and no wreckage was found. Pilot Officer R.A. Clarke (pilot), Flight Sergeant J.M. Johnson (observer), Pilot Officer J.A. Hackett (WAG) and Flight Sergeant D.R Legimediere (WAG) were lost. Assigned to workshop reserve at No. 4 RD on 17 Sep 1942. 2022-01-16
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-September-13 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Unknown Names: Clark | Hackett | Johnson | Lagimediere
   1943-January-19 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20
1942-September-13 KIFA RAF Pilot Officer Raymond Albert Clarke 2024-02-28
1942-September-13 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer James Alfred Hackett 2023-02-12
1942-September-13 KIFA RCAF Sergeant James Mclean Johnson 2023-02-12
1942-September-13 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Donald Roderick Lagimodiere 2023-02-12

Known Squadron Assignments: ;31

Damaged at the Patricia Bay, BC aerodrome at 17:00 on 2 June 1941, reported by No. 120 (BR) Squadron. Originally classified Category A, but subsequently repaired? Not yet on RCAF books at this time, this may have been an RAF Category A incident. Probably ferrying to eastern Canada from California at this time. Category B damage at Dorval airport at 11:30 on 23 October 1941. To Trans-Canada Airlines for crash repairs on 1 November 1941, with 414:10 logged time. To No. 3 Training Command books on 3 November 1941. To Eastern Air Command on 27 April 1942. With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when it crashed into trees near Henworth, NB (not found?) during radio range practice at 13:00 hrs on 22 Jul 1942 after an engine failure. One of the WAGs, Pilot Officer P. Platson was fatally injured. The rest of the crew, Pilot Officer S.H. Brown (pilot), Pilot Officer B.S. Walker (Observer) and Flight Sergeant R.C, Hopkinson (WAG) were all injured but survived. Airframe to No. 4 Repair Depot for scrapping on 24 Jul 1942 2022-01-16
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1941-October-23 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Dorval Airport Names: Brant | Golberg | Nussbaum | Triggs
1942-July-22 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Wentworth Nova Scotia Names: Brown | Hopkinson | Platsom | Walker
   1942-October-23 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20
1942-July-22 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Paul Platson 2023-06-23

With No. 31 OTU at Debert, NS when taken on strength. Cat “C” damage at Debert aerodrome at 20:15 hrs on 21 Oct 1941 when the a/c struck a contractor’s heavy construction vehicle while taxiing. On 17 Nov 1942, during a bombing exercise with sea markers in Cobequid Bay, NS, the a/c was inadvertently ditched due to pilot error when a wing struck the water during a low level turn. The crew escaped without serious injury but the a/c was written-off. To workshop reserve at No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 20 Nov 1942. Scrapped there 2022-01-16
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-November-17 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Cobequid Bay Names: Anderson | Brown | Peacock | Waters
   1943-January-22 Struck off Strength Cat “A” write-off; struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2022-01-16

Known Squadron Assignments: 31 OTU

With No. 31 OTU at Debert, NS when taken on strength. Cat “A” crash at Debert aerodrome at 19:30 on 13 Jun 1942. Aircraft swung to starboard on takeoff, pilot over corrected. The port wing hit the ground and the a/c crashed and the starboard engine burst into flame. The airframe was destroyed by the ensuing fire. To workshop reserve at No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 16 Jun 1942. 2022-01-16
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-June-13 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Barton | Bowen
   1942-August-17 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 31 OTU

Taken on strength for No. 31 OTU at Debert, NS. To storage at No. 4 Repair Depot pending allocation to a contractor on 1 Mar 1944, after a Cat “B” crash on 22 Feb 1944. During a night operational training flight, upon landing the a/c swung to starboard, hit a snowbank and collapsed the u/c. Subsequently, scrapped. 2022-01-16
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-February-07 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Debert Aerodrome Names: Bell | Howard
1944-February-22 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Glasgow | Medhurst | Mumby | Vaughn
   1944-May-16 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: 31 OTU

Taken on strength for No. 31 OTU at Debert, NS. Cat “C” damage at Debert at 20:55 hrs on 12 Jan 1942 when the a/c rolled forward after the chocks were removed on startup and struck another a/c. To storage on 22 May 1944. To No. 45 (RAF) Group, at Dorval, as a financial adjustment 2022-01-16
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-January-12 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Debert Nova Scotia Names: Blackley | Hanson
1943-April-08 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bennett | Cunningham | Markle | Wilson
   1944-September-21 Ownership Transferred Transferred to RAF 2019-08-20
   1944-September-21 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: ;31

Taken on strength for No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS. Category B damage at Sussex Army Camp, NS at 16:45 on 15 April 1942. Assigned to No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB for crash repairs on 20 April 1942, with 269:20 logged time. Arrive there on 26 April 1942, re-allocated to Clarke Ruse on 20 May 1942. Back to Eastern Air Command on 26 October 1942. Lost on an operational patrol on 19 April 1943. 4 crew killed: Sgt. A. Longstaff, RAF; Pilot Officer J. Howard-Bangs and Sgt. J.A. Gillis, RCAF; plus Sgt. P.M. Burns, RAAF. Application to write off dated 5 May 1943, when aircraft was still listed as missing. 2013-09-02
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-June-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-April-15 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Sussex Army Camp New Brunswick Names: Duncan | Kirkwood | Ryon
1943-April-19 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Names: Burns | Gillis | Howard-Bangs | Longstaff
   1943-July-03 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20
1943-April-19 KIFA RAAF Sergeant P M Burns 2020-09-18
1943-April-19 KIFA RCAF Sergeant John Archibald Gillis 2023-02-12
1943-April-19 KIFA RAF Pilot Officer J Howard-Bangs 2020-09-18
1943-April-19 KIFA RAF Sergeant A Longstaff 2020-09-18

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

Took off from North Coates at 01:24 in Hudson Mark V (Sqn code: RR-J Coastal Command 407 Sqn). Ditched in North Sea. Crew picked up a few days later 2022-01-16
unkown date PoW RCAF Flight Lieutenant Harvey Neil Fraser 2021-05-18

Known Squadron Assignments: ;59

#59 Squadron (Ab Uno Disce Omnes). Hudson aircraft AM 782 was carrying 4 x 250 lb. bombs and was shot down in the North Sea while on anti-sub patrol. One RAAF and three RAF members of the crew missing believed killed.
2022-01-20
1942-April-21 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph Alexander St Ours 2022-01-18

Known Squadron Assignments: ;59

Killed In Action May 29/42 age 21. #59 Squadron (Ab Uno Disce Omnes). Hudson aircraft # AM 784 was shot down in the Baltic Sea. Sgt.s Sidney Wilson (RAF) and Stanley Wilson (RAF) were also killed. One other member of the crew, not Canadian, missing believed killed. 2022-01-16
1942-May-29 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Donald Clifton Imeson 2021-08-11

Known Squadron Assignments: ;1 OADU

Hudson aircraft #AM 788 stalled and crashed on take-off at Has El Ma, Algeria. Flying Officer Daws and FS R.H. Jarvis were both killed. 2022-01-16
1943-July-25 KIFA RCAF Flying Officer Frederick John Daws 2023-07-15
1943-July-25 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Ralph Hendy Jarvis 2023-07-15

Known Squadron Assignments: ;1OTU

#1 Operational Training Unit. Hudson aircraft #AM 794 crashed in the sea. Three RAAF members of the crew also killed. 2022-01-16
1942-May-24 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant George Thomas King 2023-01-25

Known Squadron Assignments: ;53

#53 Sqn Hudson aircraft #AM 803 failed to return from operations. Three RAF crew members missing believed killed. Addendum: Three RAF crew members, FS. D.G. Stanley, Sgt.s H. aiffe, and A.R. Clouston were also killed. 2022-01-16
1942-April-17 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant George Nelson Moore 2021-09-28

Known Squadron Assignments: ;6 OTU

#6 Operational Training Unit. Hudson aircraft #AM 804 went out of control whilst in a steep turn and dived into the North Sea one mile off Redcar, Yorkshire. FSs L.J. Krapek, W. Archibald Walker, Flight Sergeant F.H. McMullin, and two RAF members of the crew were also killed. 2022-01-16
1942-March-17 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Floyd Bryson Cobb 2024-03-07
1942-March-17 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Louie Joseph Krapek 2021-08-12
1942-March-17 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Francis Hugh McMullin 2021-09-23
1942-March-17 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant William Archibald Walker 2021-07-12

Known Squadron Assignments: ;206

#206 Squadron (Nihil Nos Effugit). Hudson aircraft failed to return from an anti-sub patrol. One RAAF and two RAF members of the crew missing believed killed. 2022-01-16
1942-July-28 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Robert John Edgar 2021-08-06

Known Squadron Assignments: ;1 OTU

#1 Operational Training Unit. FS.s Eyre and W.M. Spafford were both killed when their Hudson aircraft # AM 807 went down in the sea off the east coast of England. 2022-01-16
1943-April-21 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Crowther Eyre 2022-01-31
1943-April-21 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant William Marshall Spafford 2024-03-26

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

Served with No. 407 (GR) Squadron, aircraft failed to return from a non operational flight over the English Channel, 23 March 1942.
2022-01-20
1942-March-23 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Maurice Daniel Gallagher 2021-08-07
1942-March-23 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Edward James Graham 2021-08-07
1942-March-23 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Elmer Joseph Frederick Paquette 2021-08-18
1942-March-23 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Raymond Joseph Thompson 2021-10-02

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

Served with No. 407 (GR) Squadron, RCAF c.1941/42, . Failed to return from attack on shipping on 15 May 1942, one of 5 squadron aircraft lost in that mission. Seen to have scored several hits on a freighter before being hit by flak from Gernam destroyer. 3 crew killed, one crew member reported PoW. 2022-01-16
1942-May-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Samuel Richard Balden 2021-01-27
1942-May-15 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Norman Clifford Doehn 2021-01-27
1942-May-15 PoW RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Wilbur Ronald Hamilton 2022-03-22
1942-May-15 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Donald McDonald 2022-01-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;1 OTU

#1 Operational Training Unit. Hudson aircraft #AM 825 was carrying practice bombs and stalled when a low turn was made. The aircraft crashed in the sea at Allonby, Cumberland. Three RAF airmen were also killed. 2022-01-16
1942-February-18 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Thomas Robinette Godfrey 2023-01-25

Known Squadron Assignments: ;500

#500 County of Kent Squadron (Quo Fata Vocent). Hudson aircraft #AM 828 crashed at Kolea, Algeria. Pilot Officer E. Redman, and two of the crew, not Canadians, were also killed.
2022-01-16
1943-April-03 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant John Edward Melville 2023-07-14
1943-April-03 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Earle Redman 2023-07-14

Known Squadron Assignments: ;1 OTU

#1 Operational Training Unit. The Hudson aircraft, from OTU RAF Thomaby-on-Tees, ditched in the North Sea off West Hartlepool, County Durham. WO2 Boisvert drowned. F/S F.J.V. McGrath (415541) (RAAF) was also killed. 2022-01-16
1943-September-19 KIFA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class Joseph George Louis Boisvert 2022-01-16

Known Squadron Assignments: ;59

#59 Squadron (Ab Uno Disce Omnes). W/C RH Niven DFC (RAF)(Can) had flown Spitfire aircraft on photo reconnaissance operations during 1940 and 1941. He lost his life while on an anti-shipping mission in Hudson V aircraft #AM 842, hit by ship's flak 2022-01-16
1942-May-30 KIA RAF Wing Commander Robert Henry Niven DFC 2021-09-29
1942-May-30 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer James Joseph Reilly 2021-08-10

Known Squadron Assignments: ;59

#59 Squadron (Ab Uno Disce Omnes) Hudson V aircraft #AM 852 TR-F lost during operations over Kiel, Germany. *Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross* FS EWK Baker (RCAF) killed, Pilot Officer V Moss (RAF), Flight Sergeant L Davis (RAF) and F/S SA Coombs (RAF) missing (www.number59.com, R McNeill www.rafcommands.com) 2022-01-16
1942-May-11 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Eric Walter Kenneth Baker DFC 2021-08-26

Known Squadron Assignments: ;500

#500 County Of Kent Squadron (Quo Fata Vocent). Hudson aircraft #AM 857 failed to return from operations. WO J.H. Smith (RAF) was also killed. 2022-01-16
1943-September-03 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class John Harold Smith 2022-01-18

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

With No. 407 Squadron, RCAF when lost on 15 May 1942. Reported as "RR*R" at time of loss. Took off from Bircham Newton at 20:21 for attack on German convoy. Damaged by flak during attack, crash 1/2 mile north of Coningsby while attempting emergency landing there. All 5 crew killed. One of 5 aircraft from 407 Squadron lost on this mission.
1942-May-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer James Waldron Creeden DFM 2022-06-03
1942-May-15 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant James Albert Easton 2022-07-21
1942-May-15 KIA RCAF Flying Officer Ralph King Howson 2021-09-21
1942-May-15 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Douglas Emanuel Parks 2021-01-13
1942-May-15 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Robert John Henry Powell 2021-01-13

Known Squadron Assignments: ;48

#48 Squadron (Forte Et Fidele). Hudson aircraft #AM 873 failed to return from a bombing operation. One RAAF and two RAF members of the crew missing believed killed. 2022-01-16
1942-February-16 KIA RCAF Sergeant John Gerald Purcell 2021-08-11

Known Squadron Assignments: ;53

#53 Squadron. Hudson aircraft #AM 877 was carrying bombs when it crashed three miles north-east of the Donna Nook Lifeboat Station, England. 2022-01-16
1942-March-09 KIA RCAF Sergeant Colin Stuart Milne 2021-08-16

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

With No. 407 Squadron, RCAF when lost on 18 April 1942.
1942-April-18 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Edward George Alexander 2023-07-22
1942-April-18 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Robert Arthur Conrad Draper 2022-07-04
1942-April-18 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Edmond David Girardot 2021-08-07
1942-April-18 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Donald Stewart Kennedy 2021-08-12
1942-April-18 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Bruce Wilbert Weaver 2021-07-10

Known Squadron Assignments: ;48

#48 Squadron (Forte Et Fidele). Hudson aircraft #AM 881 failed to return from a bombing trip. Three RAF members of the crew missing believed killed. 2022-01-16
1942-May-17 KIA RCAF Flying Officer John Robert Paisley 2021-08-18

Known Squadron Assignments: ;301 FTU

#301 Ferry Training Unit, Lyneham, England. Hudson aircraft # AM 885 crashed at Curraghmore, Ireland. Two RAF airmen were also killed 2022-01-16
1943-September-16 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Alexander James Chabara 2024-01-23

Known Squadron Assignments: ;31

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at RCAF Station Debert, NS when it crashed on night of 25/26 October 1941. Came down in marsh near Big Topper Lake near Malone, New York. (Also reported as near Tupper Lake, which is 50 miles south of Malone.) All 3 crew, Pilot Officer T.D. Shellshear, Pilot Officer A. Nowosad and Sgt. D.R. Gill killed. RCAF Record Card records crash location as Franklin City, New York, which is probably Franklin, 20 miles south of Malone. Wreckage salvaged by No. 6 Repair Depot. Aircraft may still have been on RAF books at time of crash, ownership to RCAF for scrapping. 2013-09-02
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
1941-October-25 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Big Tupper Lake Names: Gill | Nowosad | Shellshear
   1941-November-13 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
   1942-March-16 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20
1941-October-25 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Douglas Roy Gill 2023-05-22
1941-October-25 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer August Nowosad 2023-06-30
1941-October-25 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Thomas Douglas Shellshear 2023-06-07

Known Squadron Assignments: 31 OTU

Taken on strength for No. 31 OTU at Debert, NS. To workshop reserve at No. 4 Repair depot on 28 Jan 1943. To Clark Ruse Aircraft at Moncton, NB for crash repairs, 15 Feb to 30 Jul 1943. to EAC when completed, on the Central Training Establishment account. On the 11 Nov 43, the a/c swung violently to port on take-off and crashed. The crew was uninjured. To Clark Ruse again for crash repairs, 17 Nov 1943 to 29 Feb 1944. to EAC when completed. To storage on 22 May 1944. To No. 45 (RAF) Group, at Dorval, as a financial adjustment. Assigned to No. 231 Sqn and then 6 FU.
Crashed upon landing at Miami, FL on 01 Nov 1945. 2022-01-16
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-October-21 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1943-January-27 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Alexander | Banks | Calhoun | Golding
1943-November-10 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Berger | Freeman | Lowe | Miller
   1944-September-21 Ownership Transferred Transferred to RAF 2019-08-20
   1944-September-21 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Taken on strength for No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS. Category B damage at Debert aerodrome at 23:50 on 18 December 1942. Aircraft swung during night landing. To Clark Ruse Aircraft for crash repairs, 28 December 1942 to 26 July 1943. To Eastern Air Command when completed, on the Central Training Establishment account. To storage on 22 May 1944. To No. 45 Group, RAF at Dorval, as a financial adjustment. 2013-09-03
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1942-July-28 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-December-18 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Davis | Gamble | McLeod | Nixon
   1944-September-21 Ownership Transferred Transferred to RAF 2019-08-20
   1944-September-21 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Taken on strength at No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS. Category B damage at Debert aerodrome at 18:20 on 30 January 1943. Port landing gear collapsed on heavy landing. To workshop reserve at No. 4 Repair Depot on 2 February 1943. To Clark Ruse for crash repairs, 8 February to 25 July 1943. To Eastern Air Command when completed. Category A crash at Debert on 23 March 1944. To No. 4 Repair Depot on 24 March 1944 for scrapping. 2013-09-03
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1942-August-05 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-November-23 Accident: 123 Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: Barton | Clayton | Kenny | Kilby | Stevens
1943-January-30 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Fraser | Gray | Langford | Tonner | Weber
1944-March-23 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Blake | Carey | Harrison | Mundrick
   1944-June-07 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;31 OTU

Taken on strength at No. 31 OTU at Debert, NS. Cat “C” damage at Debert aerodrome at 18:55 hrs on 29 Oct 1941. Cat “B” crash during a forced landing at Bass River, NS (14 miles west of Debert aerodrome) at 12:30 hrs on 15 Dec 1941, following failure of starboard engine. To No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB for crash repairs, 31 Dec 1941 to 29 Jun 1942. To EAC when completed. Cat “A” crash at Debert aerodrome at 16:05 hrs on 27 Jan 1943. The a/c spun in while on short final; all 4 crew, Pilot Officer (RAF) D.M. Bennett (Nav), Pilot Officer (RAF) E.J.H. Nash (Pilot), Flight Sergeant H.R. Leadley (WAG) and Flight Sergeant E. Mark (WAG), were killed. Airframe ownership to No. 4 Repair Depot on 28 Jan 1943 for write off. 2022-01-16
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-October-21 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1941-October-29 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Debert Nova Scotia Names: Hodgson | Kowvers
1941-December-15 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Bass River Nova Scotia Names: Fitzgibbon | Friel | Russell | Whitty
1943-January-27 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bennett | Leadley | Mark | Nash
   1943-April-16 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20
1943-January-27 KIFA RAFVR Pilot Officer Donald Malcolm Bennett 2023-04-25
1943-January-27 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Henry Roy Leadley 2023-04-25
1943-January-27 KIFA RCAF Flight Sergeant Edward Mark 2023-03-04
1943-January-27 KIFA RAF Pilot Officer E J Nash 2020-08-17

Taken on strength at No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS. To Clark Ruse Aircraft, 13 March to 30 June 1943. To Eastern Air Command when completed. To workshop reserve at No. 4 Repair Depot on 3 March 1944, following a crash. Temporary repairs performed at unit, before ferry flight to Scoudouc. Stored there, pending allocation to a contractor for full repairs. Approval to scrap received 16 May 1944, but this was apparently cancelled. Pending disposal with Eastern Air Command from 31 July 1944. Stored at No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, where it was noted with 1113:05 logged time, never overhauled. By 25 March 1946 on the books of Maintenance Command, stored at No. 5 Equipment Depot at Scoudouc, NB. 2014-01-28
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1942-July-28 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1944-February-26 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Arnold | Carley | Holt | Howey | Mclean | Munro
   1946-November-27 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;31 OTU

Cat “B” crash when the a/c swung on landing at Debert aerodrome at 20:20 hrs on 14 Oct 1941 while the a/c was doing practice circuits and landings. No injuries to the crew. Again taken on strength after this at No. 31 OTU at Debert, NS. To Clark Ruse Aircraft for crash repairs on 23 Jan 1942, with 232:50 airframe hours. To EAC on 13 Jul 1942. “A” Cat crash due to pilot error on 13 Nov 1942 at Debert while the a/c was on short final. All 4 crew, including Pilot Officer (RNZAF) H.F. Willis (pilot), Flight Sergeant (RAF) C.W. Stratton (observer), Flight Sergeant J. Barber (WAG), and Flight Sergeant H. Le France (WAG) were all killed. Assigned to workshop reserve at No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 16 Nov 1942, delivered on 20 Nov 1942. Scrapped there 2022-01-16
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
1941-October-14 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Brookman | Whittaker
   1941-October-21 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-November-13 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Barber | La France | Stratton | Willis
   1943-January-22 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20
1942-November-13 KIFA RCAF Sergeant John Barber 2023-06-07
1942-November-13 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Hubert Elias Joseph Lafrance 2023-03-04
1942-November-13 KIFA RAF Sergeant C W Stratton 2020-08-10
1942-November-13 KIFA RNZAF Pilot Officer Harold Frederick Willis 2023-04-25

Category B crash at Debert aerodrome at 12:05 on 14 October 1941. Aircraft swung on takeoff and went into rough ground. Slight injuries amongst crew. Taken on strength after this at No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS. To workshop reserve at No. 4 Repair Depot on 6 November 1941. 2013-09-03
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
1941-October-14 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Brant | Shellshear | Thompson
   1941-October-21 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
   1942-March-12 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

To Clark Ruse Aircraft, 15 October to 30 December 1941. Taken on strength while there, for No. 31 Operational Training Unit. To Eastern Air Command when completed. Category B crash at Debert aerodrome at 12:45 on 26 April 1942. To workshop reserve at No. 4 Repair Depot on 2 May 1942. To Clark Ruse for repairs on 4 May 1942, with 426:00 logged time. Assigned to Eastern Air Command on 5 September 1942, delivered on 31 October 1942. To No. 4 Repair Depot for salvage on 1 January 1944, following a Category A crash. Crash at Debert, date also reported as 31 January 1944. 2013-09-04
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-October-21 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-April-26 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Colman | Goldberg | Wilson
1944-January-31 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Avent | Grimble | Havelock
   1944-May-22 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;31 OTU

Taken on strength at No. 31 OTU at Debert, NS. Cat “A” crash at L'Abord a Plouffe, QC (now part of Laval, QC) on 23 Oct 1941, while attempting a forced landing. Destroyed in post impact fire. Crash also reported as 22 Oct 1941, near St. Martin, QC (50 miles south of Laval). All 4 crew, Pilot Officer J.F. Fisher (pilot), Pilot Officer A.E. Wainwright (nav), Flight Sergeant A. Kirsh (WAG) and LAC (RAF) A.J. Morris, were killed. To No. 3 Training Command on 3 Nov 1941 for write-off. 2022-01-16
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-October-21 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1941-October-23 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Carterville Names: Boyd | Kirsh | Morris | Wainwright
   1941-December-15 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20
1941-October-23 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer John Fisher Boyd 2023-03-02
1941-October-23 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Abie Kirsch 2023-06-19
1941-October-23 KIFA RAF Leading Aircraftman A J Morris 2021-04-07
1941-October-23 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Alan Ewart Gilbert Wainwright 2023-02-01

Known Squadron Assignments: ;31 OTU

Taken on strength at No. 31 OTU at Debert, NS. Cat “A” crash at 07:30 on 23 Oct 1941, near Great Village, NS (7 miles west of Debert). The a/c flew into the ground and disintegrated, all 4 crew, Pilot Officer C.B. O’Hanley, (pilot), Pilot Officer R.A. Luard, (nav), Flight Sergeant (RAF) N.L. Hornsey (WAG) and Flight Sergeant R.F. Kelly (WAG), were killed. Scrapped by No. 4 Repair Depot. 2022-01-16
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-October-21 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1941-October-23 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Great Village Nova Scotia Names: Hanley | Hornsey | Kelly | Luard
   1941-December-10 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to produce 2019-08-20
1941-October-23 KIFA RAF Sergeant Norman Leonard Hornsey 2021-03-01
1941-October-23 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Robert Frederick Kelley 2023-04-25
1941-October-23 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Richard Aubrey Luard 2023-04-25
1941-October-23 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Charles Beeching O'Hanley 2023-04-25

Taken on strength at No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS. Assigned to No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB for scrapping on 12 April 1943, delivered on 19 April 1943. 2013-09-05
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-October-21 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1943-April-09 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Gallagher | Hardman | Lensdale
   1943-June-01 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Taken on strength at No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS. Category B damage at Debert aerodrome at 18:20 on 23 November 1941. To Clark Ruse Aircraft for crash repairs on 13 December 1941, with 179:40 logged time. Back to Eastern Air Command on 20 May 1942, and back to No. 31 OTU. Category B damage at Debert aerodrome at 19:20 on 24 August 1942. Faulty use of controls caused aircraft to swing, undercarriage collapsed. To Clark Ruse for crash repairs again, 1 September 1942 to 28 January 1943. To Eastern Air command when completed. To storage on 22 May 1944. To No. 45 Group, RAF at Dorval, as a financial adjustment. 2013-09-05
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-October-21 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-August-24 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Waygood | Wilson
   1944-September-21 Ownership Transferred Transferred to RAF 2019-08-20
   1944-September-21 Struck off Strength 2022-02-07

Known Squadron Assignments: ;31 OTU

Taken on strength at No. 31 OTU at Debert, NS. Cat “B” damage at Debert aerodrome at 11:25 on 23 Oct 1941. Assigned to Clark Ruse Aircraft for crash repairs on 6 Nov 1941, with 282:55 airframe hours. Arrived there on 31 Dec 1941. Back to EAC on 19 May 1942. To Clark Ruse for repairs again, 25 Aug 1943 to 29 Feb 1944. To EAC when completed. During a practice bombing mission the a/c crashed into Cobequid Bay, NS on 16 Apr 1944, and was never recovered. The 6-person crew: Pilot Officer J.W. Gibson (pilot), Pilot Officer I.A. Macdonald (2nd pilot), Pilot Officer M.W. Warwick (nav), Pilot Officer D.G. Reynolds (nav), Flight Sergeant G.A. Stewart (WAG) and Flight Sergeant A.E. Cloutier (WAG) were declared “missing” presumed “dead”. Ownership to No. 4 Repair Depot for write off on 17 Apr 1944. 2022-01-16
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-October-21 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1941-October-23 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Debert Aerodrome Names: Baker | Biggs | Moran
1944-April-15 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Minas Basin Nova Scotia Names: Cloutier | Gibson | MacDonald | Reynolds | Stewart | Warwick
   1944-May-25 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20
1944-April-15 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Albert Edward Cloutier 2024-03-05
1944-April-15 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Joseph Wilson Gibson 2023-02-12
1944-April-15 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Iain Alasdair MacDonald 2023-02-12
1944-April-15 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Douglas Glen Reynolds 2023-02-15
1944-April-15 KIFA RCAF Sergeant George Albert Stewart 2023-02-16
1944-April-15 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Murray Alfred Warwick 2023-02-16

Known Squadron Assignments: 31 OTU

Taken on strength at No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS. Category A crash on 13 February 1942, near Abiteau Lake, NS (also known as Parrsboro Lake, about 50 miles west of Debert). Details not clear, may have been attempting a forced landing after encountering icing. Crew uninjured. To No. 4 Repair Depot on 18 February 1942 for scrapping. 2022-01-16
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-October-21 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-February-13 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Abiteau Lake Parsboro Names: Donkersley | Mcnall
   1942-March-16 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Taken on strength at No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS. To Clark Ruse Aircraft 15 October 1941 to 2 January 1942. To Eastern Air Command and back to No. 31 OTU. when completed. Category B damage at Debert aerodrome at 19:50 on 3 July 1942. Swung on landing in strong cross wind. To Clark Ruse Aircraft for crash repairs on 7 July 1942. Classified as Instructional Airframe A 190 on 5 November 1942, used as a synthetic trainer (a simulator) at No. 36 Operational Training Unit at Greenwood, NS. To No. 1 Training Command on 1 September 1943. Had been RCAF AM905 2020-06-12
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1941-October-21 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-July-03 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Downey | Nicholson | Smith | Steadman | Verity
   1942-November-05 Classified Instructional CA A 190 2020-06-12
   1944-July-04 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2020-10-16

Known Squadron Assignments: ;407

Served with No. 407 (GR) Squadron, RCAF, coded RR*O". Damaged by flak during attack on German convoy north of Terschelling on 16 May 1942. Both engines failed on landing at Docling, UK and aircraft crashed into gun pit. 1 crew and 1 gunner on the ground killed, one crew injured.
1942-May-16 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Angus Lloyd Kippen 2021-03-12

Known Squadron Assignments: ;60

#60 Squadron (Per Ardua Ad Aethera Tendo). Pilot Officer Corbett was killed when his Hudson aircraft crashed at Bazar, Bengal 2022-01-16
1942-May-17 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Ernest Clayton Corbett 2024-04-15

Known Squadron Assignments: ;357

#357 Squadron. Hudson aircraft crashed. 2022-01-16
1944-March-15 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Bruce Adam Ogilvie 2021-08-18
1944-March-15 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Richard Blake Palmer 2021-08-18
1944-March-15 KIA RCAF Flight Lieutenant Lorne Patterson 2021-08-18

First served with No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS. Later to No. 36 Operational Training Unit at Greenwood, NS. With No. 36 OTU when damaged in a precautionary landing, due to approaching darkness and bad weather, at Pleasant Harbour, NS at 19:15 on 9 October 1942. Originally classified as Category B but revised to Category C28 on 14 October 1942. To Clark Ruse for crash repairs, 21 October 1942 to 6 April 1943. To Eastern Air Command when completed, delivered on 30 April 1943 to user unit. To No. 4 Repair Depot on 28 September 1943 as a "fly in repair" after a Category B crash. To No. 6 Repair Depot for overhaul, 13 October 1943 to 7 February 1944. To Eastern Air Command when completed. Converted to target tug by EAC from 9 June 1944, also noted as on loan from BCATP to Western Hemisphere Organization form this date. To Western Air Command in July 1944. Allocated on 18 August 1944 as a spare aircraft for air-sea rescue. On 23 November 1944 to No. 22 Sub-Repair Depot at Vancouver, for replacement of Cyclone G205A engines with Cyclone G202A. To Coates Limited for repairs, 20 February 1945 to 4 January 1946. To storage at the Reserve Equipment Maintenance Satellite at Abbotsford when completed, pending disposal from this date. Noted with 800:10 total time while in storage. 2009-09-06
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1942-January-28 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-October-09 Accident: 36 Operational Training Unit Loc: Pleasant Harbour Nova Scotia Names: Aldridge | Beeston | Jones
   1947-March-14 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal. 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;31

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS. Reported missing on 14 December 1941, while still on RAF books. Had taken off at 18:25 for one hour local flight, last radio contact at 18:29. Wreckage presumed to be from this aircraft washed up on beach at Cape Pleasant, NS (40 miles west of Debert, at the entrance to the Minas Basin off the Bay of Fundy) on 24 December 1941. All 4 crew missing. Allocated to No. 4 Repair Depot for write off, still not located, on 2 February 1942. Note that aircraft could have come down in salt water as close as 6 miles south-west of Debert aerodrome, with wreckage being carried by strong tides through Cobequid Bay to the Minas Basin. 2009-09-06
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
1941-December-13 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Atlantic Ocean Names: Bird | Blyth | Pickles | Rowke
   1942-January-26 Taken on Strength paper transfer only 2019-08-20
   1942-April-16 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20
1941-December-13 KIFA RAFVR Pilot Officer Maurice Edward Charles Bird 2023-02-08
1941-December-13 KIFA RAF Pilot Officer K W Blyth 2020-08-22
1941-December-13 KIFA RAF Pilot Officer A Pickles 2020-08-22
1941-December-13 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Clyde Burton Rourke 2023-02-15

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. Category A crash at Debert in early 1944. Allocated to No. 4 Repair Depot for salvage on 20 March 1944. All salvageable items returned to No. 4 Repair Depot. 2009-09-06
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1942-January-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1944-March-07 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Palmer | Tisdale
   1944-April-21 Struck off Strength Cat A write off 2022-01-17

Known Squadron Assignments: ;Halifax

With No. 31 OTU at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. Cat “B” crash at Debert aerodrome at 19:50 on 15 Mar 1942. Arrived at No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB for crash repairs on 25 Mar 1942, ownership transferred to No. 4 RD on 27 Mar 1942. Had 156:50 airframe hours. To EAC on 10 Nov 1942. To Clark Ruse Aircraft on 20 May 1942 for repairs. The a/c took off on 3 Dec 1942 with four employees from Clark Ruse Aircraft onboard for a familiarization flight with a RCAF test pilot at the controls. The pilot apparently lost control of the a/c at low level in snow flurries and crashed just off a breakwater in Halifax harbour. All on board were killed including: Flight Lieutenant J.H. Prentice (pilot) , Mr. A. Cahill, Miss J. Curran, Miss M. MacQueen and Mr O. MacAulay. On the books of No.17 Aircraft Inspection Detachment when written off. 2022-01-17
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1942-January-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-March-15 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Dela Paklle | Wilson
1942-December-03 Accident: CLARKERUSE AIRCRAFT Loc: Halifax Names: Cahill | Curran | MacCaulay | Mcqueen | Prentice
   1943-April-07 Struck off Strength Cat A write off 2022-01-17
1942-December-03 KIFA Civilian T Arthur Cahill 2022-02-17
1942-December-03 KIFA Civilian Jean Curran 2022-02-17
1942-December-03 KIFA Civilian Owen MacCaulay 2022-02-17
1942-December-03 KIFA Civilian Mary McQueen 2022-02-17
1942-December-03 KIFA RCAF Flight Lieutenant John Henry Prentice 2023-05-17

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. Noted on 12 February 1942 as one of 55 Hudsons released from a British Lend Lease contract. Category B damage 1 mile east of Sydney, NS at 06:30 on 14 July 1942. Pilot had become lost during night flight, attempted forced landing due to low fuel. Ownership to No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 20 July 1942. To Clark Ruse Aircraft for crash repairs, 30 July to 17 November 1942. To Eastern Air Command when completed, noted as on loan to Home War Establishment. To No. 6 Repair Depot at Trenton for "fly in" crash repairs, 23 February 1944. Noted as converted to transport on 24 August 1944. To No. 1 Air Command when completed. To No. 1 Air Command Communications Flight at Trenton on 22 November 1945. Referred to as "the AOC's aircraft" in unit records. Pending disposal from 1 April 1946, but operated by No. 12 (T) Squadron from Rockcliffe on 19 April 1946, flew to Trenton and return. Ownership back to No. 6 RD on 19 June 1946, still pending disposal. Noted with 1015:10 total time while in storage. To civil register as CF-FGH. With Photographic Survey Co as of Dec 1946. To Aerofoto Ltda / Aero Fotographia SA with registration of C-321 in 1947. Overshot the runway on take-off at Maganue, Columbia on 28 Dec 1947 and damaged beyond repair. 2022-01-17
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   1942-January-26 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1942-July-14 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Sydney Nova Scotia Names: Bullock | Jeffries | Mcallister
1944-February-16 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Berseford | Doff | Flecknell
   1946-December-23 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal. 2019-08-20

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. To No. 3 Training Command on 1 February 1943, for use by Test and Development Establishment at RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario. Noted as fitted with special ASV (radar) equipment on that date. To No. 9 Repair Depot for repairs, 21 June to 10 July 1944, then back to Test & Development Establishment. To No. 1 Air Command on 15 January 1945. Pending disposal from 1 April 1946. to No. 9 (T) Group on 4 June 1946, still pending disposal, stored at Rockcliffe. Noted with 1203:05 total time, 68:05 since overhaul, while in storage. 2009-09-07
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   1942-January-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
   1946-December-19 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal. 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;31

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. Crashed on Dalhousie Mountain, near Scotsburn, NS in the early morning on 10 August 1942. On cross country exercise, ordered to divert to Charlottetown, PEI due to deteriorating weather at Debert. Acknowledged order, struck mountain top at cruise speed en route to Charlottetown and completely disintegrated. All crew killed, including Pilot Officer J.A. Bursill (or Bursil?), RAAF; Pilot Officer A. Rogers, Sgt. A.W. Cooke; Sgt. J.K. Hobson; Sgt. H.J. Vincent. Ownership to No. 4 Repair Depot on 13 August 1942 for write off. Memorial service for victims held on 66th anniversary of crash, 10 August 2008, at crash site. 2009-09-08
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   1941-December-22 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-August-10 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Pictou County Nova Scotia Names: Bursill | Cooke | Hobson | Rogers | Vincent
   1942-November-12 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20
1942-August-10 KIFA RAAF Pilot Officer J A Bursill 2020-09-18
1942-August-10 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Arnold William Cooke 2024-04-06
1942-August-10 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer John Kenneth Hobson 2023-06-30
1942-August-10 KIFA RCAF Pilot Officer Paul Amos Rogers 2023-06-22
1942-August-10 KIFA RCAF Sergeant Howard James Vincent 2023-07-03

With No. 31 OTU at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. “B” Cat accident at Debert on 13 Sep 1943 when the a/c swung on landing while practicing circuits. No injuries to the crew. To No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 17 Sep 1943. To Clarke Ruse Aircraft at Moncton, NB for crash repairs, 30 Nov 1943. Ownership to No. 4 Repair Depot on 8 Dec 1943 for write off. Allocated to No. 21 Repair Depot on 3 Apr 1944 for scrapping. 2022-01-17
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   1942-January-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1943-September-13 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: McCracken | Robinson | Tennant
   1944-November-06 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Noted on 12 Feb 1942 as one of 55 Hudsons to be released from RAF lend lease contract. Taken on strength at Debert, NS, may have been with No. 31 OTU at the time. Noted on 16 Feb 1942 as on loan from RAF to Home War Establishment. With No. 113 (BR) Sqn at Yarmouth, NS, in 1942. One of several Hudsons detached by this Sqn to Chatham, NB in Sep 1942, in response to German U-boat activity in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Attacked U-165, 20 miles south of Anticosti Island in the Gulf, on 9 Sep 1942. With No. 11 (BR) Sqn, RCAF Stns Torbay, NF or Dartmouth, NS, c. 1943 to 1944. Coded "S". Pending disposal from 11 Sep 1944, when it was noted with Western Hemisphere Organization. Stored by No. 4 Repair Depot, where it was noted with 1,174:30 airframe hours, never overhauled. Sold to Ambrose Aviation of White Plains, New York.To TACA as TI-77. Broken up in San Jose, Costa Rica as of 1946. 2022-01-17
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   1942-February-16 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
   1945-August-14 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal. 2019-08-20

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. Category C21 damage at Dartmouth, NS at 12:38 on 30 April 1942. To Clarke Ruse Aircraft for crash repairs, 6 May to 11 July 1942. to Eastern Air Command when completed. To Clarke Ruse Aircraft at Moncton, 20 August to 24 November 1943. To storage on 22 May 1944. To Eastern Air Command on 9 June 1944, for conversion to target tug. Noted as on loan from BCATP to Western Hemisphere Organization on that date. To No. 3 Training Command on 2 September 1944, as a target tug. To No. 1 Air Command on 15 January 1945. To stored reserve with Eastern Air Command on 2 May 1945. Stored by No. 6 Reserve Equipment Maintenance Unit. Pending disposal from 20 March 1946, at the Reserve Equipment Maintenance Satellite at Mt. Pleasant, PEI. Noted with 1367:35 total time while in storage. 2010-04-14
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   1942-January-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-April-30 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Dartmouth Names: Colman | Goldlerg | Wilson
   1947-June-27 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal. 2020-10-27

With No. 31 OTU at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. Cat “B” crash at Debert at 04:05 hrs on 25 Apr 1942 when the a/c swung on landing during a student’s first solo night flight. To Clarke Ruse Aircraft for crash repairs, 4 May to 5 Sep 1942. Had 161:25 airframe hours when it arrived. To EAC when completed. To No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 2 Nov 1942, following another crash. To Clarke Ruse for crash repairs again on 9 Nov 1942. To EAC on 10 May 1943, for use by a training unit. Another “B” Cat crash on 18 Jan 1944 when the a/c swung on landing and hit snowbank at Debert. Airframe to storage at No. 4 Repair Depot on 8 Feb 1944, pending allocation to a contractor. Still there when scrapped. 2022-01-17
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   1942-January-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-April-25 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Barber | Martin
1942-October-30 Accident: 36 Operational Training Unit Loc: No 2 Runway Names: Martin | Terriff
1944-January-18 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Arnold | Frew | Taylor
   1944-May-16 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. To No. 1 Training Command, for use by Instructional Flight at the Central Flying School, RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario, on 27 November 1942. To No. 1 Air Command on 15 January 1945. Pending disposal from 1 April 1946. By 19 June 1946 on the books of No. 6 Repair Depot. Noted with 2460:50 total time, never overhauled, while in storage. 2009-09-10
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   1942-January-28 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
   1947-January-02 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal. 2019-08-20

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. To No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 25 September 1943. To Clarke Ruse Aircraft at Moncton, NB for crash repairs, 30 November 1943. To No. 21 Repair Depot on 3 April 1944 for scrapping. 2009-09-10
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   1942-January-28 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1943-September-19 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Gourtois | Storrie
   1944-November-06 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. Converted to target tug, date and location not known. To Eastern Air Command on 8 August 1944, as a target tug. To storage on 2 October 1945. Pending disposal from 9 January 1946, stored by No. 6 Reserve Equipment Maintenance Unit. Noted with 1377:45 total time, never overhauled, while in storage. 2009-09-10
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   1942-January-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
   1946-November-22 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal. 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;36

Delivered to Debert, NS with TC. Coded “L2” Crashed at 17:25 hrs on 11 Dec 1942, while taking off from No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB, with passengers and parts en route back to No. 36 OTU at RCAF Stn Greenwood, NS. Flight Lieutenant E.O. Richards (pilot) and Flight Sergeant H.L.J. Wilkins were killed and LAC M.J. Morrison was severely injured. The precise cause was not determined. 2022-01-17
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   1942-August-04 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-December-11 Accident: 36 Operational Training Unit Loc: Scoudouc Names: Morrison | Richards | Wilkins
   1943-April-16 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20
1942-December-11 KIFA RAF Flight Lieutenant Elmer Oscar Richards 2023-03-02
1942-December-11 KIFA RAF Sergeant Henry Lionel John Wilkins 2023-01-01

Assigned to No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 2 March 1943. To Clarke Ruse Aircraft for crash repairs, 4 March to 10 September 1943. To Eastern Air Command when completed, for use by a training unit. To stored reserve on 22 May 1944, transferred from BCATP to Western Hemisphere Organization in August 1944, still in storage. Issued to Eastern Air Command on 15 May 1945. In use as staff transport at RCAF Station Yarmouth, NS in June 1945. Back to storage on 27 August 1945. Stored by No. 6 Reserve Equipment Maintenance Unit at the Reserve Equipment Maintenance Satellite at Mt. Pleasant, PEI. Pending disposal at Mt. Pleasant from 20 March 1946. Noted with 1272:00 logged time, never overhauled, while in storage. 2015-10-09
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   1942-October-27 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1943-February-25 Accident: 36 Operational Training Unit Loc: Kingston Names: Marsh | Parry
   1947-June-27 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal. 2019-08-20

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. To No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 14 July 1942, following a Category B crash. Classified as Instructional Airframe A 247 on 28 December 1942. To No. 1 Training Command on 17 august 1943, for use by No. 1 Technical Training School at Aylmer, Ontario. Declared of no further instructional value on 9 May 1946, retained at Aylmer in whole state pending instructions from War Assets Corporation. Had been RCAF BW423 2020-06-12
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   1942-June-10 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-July-05 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cameron | Roehricht
   1942-December-28 Classified Instructional CA A 247 2020-06-12
   1946-May-09 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

First assigned to Home War Establishment. Noted on 12 February 1942 as one of 55 Hudsons released off a British Lend Lease contract. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at Torbay, Newfoundland in 1942/43. To No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS on 21 October 1943. To storage on 22 May 1944. To No. 21 Repair Depot on 13 July 1944, for conversion to air-sea rescue configuration. Transferred from BCATP to Western Hemisphere Organization on same date. To Western Air Command on 10 November 1944, for use by No. 122 (K) Squadron at RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC. To workshop reserve at Patricia Bay on 26 January 1945, for repairs. Back to Western Air Command on 8 February 1945, for use by No. 123 (S&R) Flight at RCAF Station Sea Island, BC. Pending disposal at Sea Island from 3 October 1946. To War Assets Corporation in June 1947, but back to Northwest Air Command on 10 November 1947. Still being operated by No. 123 (S&R) Flight in November 1947 and January 1948. Flew flood relief transport missions in BC interior in May and June 1948. Pending disposal again from 20 August 1948. Noted with 889:35 total time while in storage, date not clear. 2015-11-25
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   1942-February-05 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
   1948-December-13 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal. 2019-08-20

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. Category C14 damage at Debert aerodrome at 13:35 on 18 April 1942. To Eastern Air Command on 8 August 1944, as a target tug. Noted on that date as on loan from BCATP to Western Hemisphere Organization. To storage 2 October 1945. Noted as serviceable on that date, with 1411:05 logged time, never overhauled. Stored by No. 6 Reserve Equipment Maintenance Unit. Pending disposal from 9 January 1946. 2009-09-13
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   1942-January-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-April-18 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Graves | Scharff | Tait
   1946-November-22 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal. 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;31

With No. 31 OTU at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. Coded “A1”. Cat “B” damage at Aylesford, NS (about 7 miles north east of Greenwood) on 16 Jan 1943, in a gear up forced landing. Reported by No. 36 OTU at Greenwood, NS. Ownership to No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 19 Jan 1943, delivered there on 29 Jan 1943. To Clark Ruse Aircraft for repairs, 1 Feb to 10 Jun 1943. To EAC when completed. Cat “A” crash on 21 Aug 1943. The a/c took off on a famil flight with an instructor pilot, a student and two passengers on board. On take-off the u/c was retracted too early and the right wing tip touched the ground. The pilot over controlled and the a/c struck the opposite wing on the ground and cartwheeled. The student pilot, Flight Sergeant (RAF) L. Marshall was fatally injured. The remaining members were seriously injured. To No. 4 Repair Depot on 2 Sep 1943, for inspection and report. Declared beyond further aeronautical value. Scrapped at No. 4 Repair Depot 2022-01-17
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   1942-January-28 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1943-January-16 Accident: 36 Operational Training Unit Loc: Berwick Bombing Range Names: Miles | Young
1943-August-21 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Gontier | Lemoine | Marshall | Pearson
   1944-February-05 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20
1943-August-21 KIFA RAF Sergeant L Marshall 2021-04-12

With No. 31 OTU at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. Destroyed in Cat “A” crash at Debert aerodrome at 22:16 hrs on 4 May 1942. On the way to practice circuits with two pilots on board, the a/c swung on take-off and crashed into an embankment just off the runway and was destroyed by fire. There were no injuries to the crew. To No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 7 May 1942, for scrapping. 2022-01-17
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   1942-January-28 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-May-04 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Saunders | Van Der Pol
   1942-July-23 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. Category B damage at Debert aerodrome at 11:25 on 14 May 1942, swung off runway on takeoff, into rough ground. To No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 21 May 1942. To Clark Ruse aircraft for repairs, 26 May 1942. May have been involved in Category A crash on 5 May 1943, hand written record not clear. On the books of No. 17 Aircraft Inspection Detachment when written off. Scrapped by Clark Ruse. 2009-09-17
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   1942-January-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-May-14 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Stephens | Van Der Pol
   1944-February-02 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. Category B damage at Debert aerodrome at 13:22 on 3 June 1942. Swung on takeoff, left runway, undercarriage collapsed when aircraft struck a ditch. To No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB, then to Clark Ruse Aircraft on 11 June 1942, had 262:30 logged time when it arrived. On the books of No. 17 Aircraft Inspection Detachment when written off. 2009-09-13
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   1942-January-28 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-June-03 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bowen | Dravers
   1944-February-02 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. Category C4 damage at Debert at 03:15 on 21 June 1942, ground collision with Hudson BW628. Allocated to No. 4 Repair Depot on 28 May 1943. To Clark Ruse Aircraft at Moncton, NB for crash repairs, 1 June 1943 to 3 January 1944. To storage with Eastern Air Command when completed. Issued from storage on 21 February 1944, for use at No. 31 OTU. To No. 21 Repair Depot 3 March 1944, for repairs. To storage with EAC on 23 May 1944, issued from storage on 16 June 1944. Converted to target tug by 8 August 1944. To No. 4 Repair Depot on 5 February 1945, to be held there pending allocation to pending disposal. Noted with 952:55 total time while stored there. Pending disposal from 21 March 1945. Sold to Ambrose Aviation SA of Whitestone, Long Island, New York. To TACA as TI-78. Broken up in San Jose, Costa Rica in 1946. 2022-01-17
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   1942-January-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-June-21 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bardon | Bullock | Cadwell | Downey
1943-May-24 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Harrison | Hopkin
   1945-August-14 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal. 2019-08-20

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. Category B damage at 11:45 on 26 September 1942, at Debert aerodrome, ground looped on landing. To No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 29 September 1942. To Clark Ruse aircraft for crash repairs, 6 October 1942 to 29 January 1943. To Eastern Air Command when completed. To No. 4 Repair Depot on 12 June 1943, following another crash. To Clark Ruse again for crash repairs, 17 June 1943 to 25 January 1944. To storage with Eastern Air Command when completed. Issued to No. 31 OTU on 21 February 1944. To No. 21 Repair Depot on 8 July 1944, for conversion to air-sea rescue configuration. To Eastern Air Command on 2 November 1944. To storage at No. 6 Reserve Equipment Maintenance Unit on 4 January 1946. Noted with 724:15 total time while in storage. Pending disposal from 9 January 1946. 2010-04-14
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   1942-January-28 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-September-26 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Frehner | Mclachlan
1943-June-11 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Dyson | Sutton
   1946-November-22 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal. 2019-08-20

With No. 36 Operational Training Unit at Greenwood, NS. Category C14 damage near Greenwood aerodrome, at 17:00 on 8 December 1942. Struck a tree during unauthorized low flying. To Clark Ruse Aircraft for repairs, 11 January to 18 March 1943. To Eastern Air Command when completed, delivered on 24 March 1943. To No. 4 Repair Depot on 11 February 1944 following a Category B crash, when the port u/c collapsed during taxiing and awaiting allotment to repair contractor. Scrapped there. 2022-01-17
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   1942-August-07 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-December-07 Accident: 36 Operational Training Unit Loc: Greenwood Names: Kelty | Williams
1944-January-29 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Lang | Pratt | Walker
   1944-May-16 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20

Taken on strength for Home War Establishment. Noted on 12 February 1942 at one of 55 Hudsons released off a British Lend Lease contract. Served with No. 145 (BR) Squadron at Torbay, Newfoundland in 1942/43. To workshop reserve at RCAF Station Gander, Newfoundland, 9 December 1942 to 5 June 1943. To Eastern Air Command when completed, for use by No. 145 Squadron at Sydney, NS. To No. 3 Training Command on 11 September 1943, for use by Test and Development Establishment at RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario. Used for trials with carburettor de-icing alcohol spray. To No. 1 Air Command on 15 January 1945. Pending disposal from 1 April 1946. to No. 9 (T) Group at Rockcliffe on 4 June 1946, still pending disposal. Reported with 784:45 logged time while in storage. 2010-04-14
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   1942-February-10 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-November-16 Accident: 145 Squadron Loc: Torbay Names: Dalgleish | Harle | Richmond | Suzak
   1946-December-16 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal. 2019-08-20

To No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 24 September 1943, following a crash. To Clark Ruse Aircraft at Moncton, NB for crash repairs on 10 January 1944. To No. 21 Repair Depot on 3 April 1944 for write off. 2009-09-18
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   1942-June-24 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1943-September-22 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Barnes | Sparks
   1944-November-06 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. Category B damage at 15:45 on 9 June 1942, at Debert aerodrome. Swung on take off. To No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 16 June 1942. To Clark Ruse Aircraft for crash repairs on 17 June 1942. Had 329:10 logged time when it arrived. Scrapped at Clark Ruse. May have been scrapped as early as December 1942. 2009-09-17
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   1942-January-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-June-09 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cole | Stirling
   1943-March-05 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. Category A crash at 02:25 on 25 February 1942, near Presque Isle Army Air Field, Maine. Left engine failed on approach, stalled and landed short. 2 minor injuries amongst 6 people on board. Arrived at No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 28 February 1942 for write off. 2009-09-17
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   1942-January-28 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-February-25 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Preque Isle Airport Maine Names: Duncan | Hamilton | Lonsdale | Pearson | Petts | Stevenson
   1942-June-01 Struck off Strength Cat “A” write-off; struck off and reduced to spares and produce 2022-01-17

Known Squadron Assignments: ;113

Noted on 10 Feb 1942 as to be loaned to Home War Establishment. Noted on 12 Feb 1942 as one of 55 Hudsons released off a British Lend Lease contract. With No. 113 (BR) Sqn at Yarmouth, NS, c.1942. . During a low-level practice bombing mission, the a/c dived or spun out of control into clump of trees 5 mi west of the station. All five of the crew, including Pilot Officer E.W. Vogelsang, Flight Sergeant D.M. May, Flight Sergeant L.E. Thomas and LAC W. Dale, were killed. Application for write off submitted from No. 4 Repair Depot on 11 Jan 1943 2022-01-17
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   1942-February-10 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1943-January-08 Accident: 113 Squadron Loc: Yarmouth County Nova Scotia Names: Dale | Macrae | May | Thomas | Vogelsang
   1943-May-22 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20
1943-January-08 KIA RCAF Leading Aircraftman William Dale 2023-03-02
1943-January-08 KIA RCAF Sergeant William David MacRae 2023-04-25
1943-January-08 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant David Merriman May 2023-06-07
1943-January-08 KIA RCAF Sergeant Leslie Edmund Thomas 2023-04-25
1943-January-08 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer Edward Walter Vogelsang 2023-06-30

With No. 31 OTU at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. During a dual circuits and landing mission, the starboard engine cut out on take-off. The pilot aborted the take-off but the a/c swung off the runway and crashed into a snowbank. No injuries to the two-man crew. To Clarke Ruse Aircraft at Moncton, NB for crash repairs on 13 Jan 1944. To No. 21 Repair Depot for scrapping on 3 Apr 1944. 2022-01-17
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   1942-January-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1943-December-19 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Sharpe | White
   1944-November-06 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;145

Noted on 10 February 1942 as to be loaned to Home War Establishment. Noted on 12 February 1942 as one of 55 Hudsons released off a British Lend Lease contract. Reported missing on 2 November 1942, off coast of Newfoundland, near Torbay, while with No. 145 (BR) Squadron. Had departed on an anti-submarine and convoy escort patrol at 16:35 GMT. Subsequent report theorized that an inexperienced pilot may have let down through fog and crashed at sea. All 4 crew missing, presumed dead. Application for write off submitted by RCAF Station Gander on 5 November 1942. Ownership to No. 19 Sub-Repair Depot at Gander on 1 December 1942. 2014-01-30
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   1942-February-10 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-November-01 Accident: 145 Squadron Loc: Over Atlantic Ocean Names: Beattie | Davies | Feldman | Robinson
   1943-January-12 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20
1942-November-01 KIA RCAF Sergeant Harry Cameron Beattie 2023-02-08
1942-November-01 KIA RCAF Pilot Officer John Robert Davies 2023-02-11
1942-November-01 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Leonard Feldman 2023-02-12
1942-November-01 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Lewis Gerald Robinson 2023-02-15

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. To No. 6 Repair Depot at RCAF Station Trenton from 22 November 1943 to 24 April 1944. To No. 1 Training Command when completed. Used at Island Airport, Toronto, for experimental project undertaken with Research Enterprises Limited. (This was a Crown Corporation, involved in armaments research. President of this company, F.E. Coombs, would later be the founding president of the Canadian Association of Physicists.) To No. 1 Air Command on 15 January 1945. to storage on 3 October 1945. Issued from storage on 6 November 1945. Pending disposal from 2 February 1946, stored at Malton, Ontario. Noted in storage with 1368:15 total time, 313:10 since overhaul. 2009-09-17
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   1942-March-16 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
   1947-September-06 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal. 2019-08-20

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. Category B damage at Debert aerodrome at 12:40 on 30 July 1942. Nosed up after too sudden application of brakes. To No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB for repairs, 3 August to 25 October 1942. To Eastern Air Command when completed. To storage on 25 May 1944. Pending disposal from 8 August 1944. Stored by No. 4 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB, where it was noted with 1500:40 logged time. Sold to Frank Ambrose Aviation of Long Island, New York. 2009-09-17
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1942-January-28 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-July-30 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Treleaven | Warner
   1945-July-28 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal. 2019-08-20

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. Category C21 damage at Debert aerodrome at 11:37 on 10 April 1942. Tire burst on heavy landing. To Clark Ruse Aircraft for crash repairs on 19 June 1942, this may have been a separate incident. Had 165:00 logged time when it arrived. To Clark Ruse Aircraft for further work on 19 June 1942. To Eastern Air Command on 25 September 1942, for use by a training unit. Transferred to Home War Establishment on 9 June 1943, to replace Hudson BW723 which had crashed while on loan to BCATP from Home War Establishment. To No. 21 Repair Depot at Scoudouc, NB on 8 July 1944, for conversion to transport. Back to Eastern Air Command on 1 December 1944. To storage with No. 6 Reserve Equipment Maintenance Unit on 11 October 1945, noted then as serviceable, with 1251:50 logged time. By 10 March 1946 stored at Mount Pleasant, PEI. 2009-09-17
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1942-January-26 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-April-10 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Burnett | Crumpton
1943-June-01 Accident: 119 Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: Arch | Giles | Jardine | Myles
   1947-June-27 Struck off Strength Struck off, to War Assets Corporation for disposal. 2019-08-20

Known Squadron Assignments: ;11

With No. 31 Operational Training Unit at Debert, NS when taken on RCAF books. Noted on 12 February 1942 as one of 55 Hudsons released off a British Lend Lease contract. Loaned to Home War Establishment in February 1942, for use by No. 11 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS, coded "L". Category C1 damage at Dartmouth aerodrome at 19:00 on 16 March 1942. Not clear if aircraft was still with No. 31 OTU, or No. 11 Squadron. Category A crash while with No. 11 Squadron, at Dartmouth aerodrome at 23:20 on 24 February 1943. Crashed and exploded after attempting to land in bad weather after returning from anti-submarine patrol, and then diverting to Debert. Exploded on impact, 6 miles east of Runway #4 at Dartmouth. Pilot A/F/S H.C. Johnson and 3 other crew killed. Ownership to No. 4 Repair Depot on 26 February 1943 for write off. 2012-02-28
RCAF Aircraft Record Card
   1942-February-05 Taken on Strength Eastern Air Command 2019-08-20
1942-March-16 Accident: 31 Operational Training Unit Loc: Aerodrome Names: Alston | Fleming | Pilcher | Wishart
1943-February-24 Accident: 11 Squadron Loc: Dartmouth Names: Johnson | Macmillan | Rhea | Rowe
   1943-April-26 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20
1943-February-24 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Harold Chester Johnson 2021-08-11
1943-February-24 KIA RCAF Sergeant Edgar Macmillan 2023-03-02
1943-February-24 KIA RCAF Warrant Officer 2nd Class David Ronald Rhea 2023-02-01
1943-February-24 KIA RCAF Flight Sergeant Maurice Medcalf Rowe 2023-03-04