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Gauthier dit Larouche, Joseph Charles Wilfred (Sergeant)

Killed in Flying Accident 1942-06-09

Birth Date: 1919-03-11 (age 23)

Jean Baptiste and Anna Larouche, of Chicoutimi, Quebec.

Home: Chicoutimi, Quebec

Service
RCAF
Unit
1 CNS- Central Navigation School
Base
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Rank
Sergeant
Marshal
Air Chief MarshalA/C/M
Air MarshalA/M
Air Vice MarshalA/V/M
Air CommodoreA/C
Group CaptainG/C
Wing CommanderW/C
Squadron LeaderS/L
Flight LieutenantF/L
Flying OfficerF/O
Pilot OfficerP/O
Warrant Officer 1st ClassWO1
Warrant Officer 2nd ClassWO2
Flight SergeantFS
SergeantSGT
CorporalCPL
Senior AircraftmanSAC
Leading AircraftmanLAC
Aircraftman 1st ClassAC1
Aircraftman 2nd ClassAC2
Position
Wireless Air Gunner
Service Numbers
R/55861
1 Central Navigation School, Rivers, Manitoba. Anson aircraft crashed.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Crew on Anson Mk. I 6069

Avro Anson

Avro Anson Mk. V
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
The Museum's Anson Mk. V was built by MacDonald Brothers in Winnipeg in 1944. It flew with No. 7 Photographic Wing and No. 414 Squadron in Ottawa on photo survey work until the late 1940s. In 1956, it was purchased by INCO and used for mineral surveying until 1980, when it was donated to the Museum. The exterior is painted in the yellow colour common to all BCATP trainers and is in its same wartime RCAF markings.

The Avro Anson was known by a number of nicknames including "Faithful Annie" or "Flying Greenhouse". It was the first aircraft to be flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force to have a retractable undercarriage, which was a comparative novelty in 1936. In 1940, a Canadian government owned company, Federal Aircraft Limited, was created in Montreal to manufacture the Anson for Canadian use. Nearly 3,000 Anson aircraft were produced and, in the early days of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), the Anson was the standard trainer for many pilots, observers (navigators), wireless operators and bomb aimers. More than 20,000 aircrew received training on the Anson. In Canadian service, the aircraft was substantially re-designed with the substitution of North American engines and many other airframe and equipment changes. Harold Skaarup web pages

General Harold A Skaarup Web Page

YouTube Avro Anson History

YouTube Avro Anson Construction

CASPIR Aircraft Groups:
RCAF On Strength (4404), RCAF 400 Squadron (6), Canadian Aircraft Losses (257)
last update: 2022-02-22 21:45:24

Anson Mk. I 6069

Ex RAF R9871. First used by Central Navigation School at Rivers Camp, Manitoba. Winter conversion kit installed by Prairie Airways Ltd at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in early 1941, quoted cost was $748.56. AC Goebel struck by starboard propeller during engine starting and severely injured at 12:30 on 30 May 1942, at Rivers Camp. Category A crash at Rivers at 21:00 on 9 June 1942. Crashed and exploded during navigation exercise, pilot Pilot Officer A.W. Willoughby and 3 crew killed. All serviceable components removed at Central Navigation School and sent to No. 8 Repair Depot at Winnipeg.
1940-09-11 Taken on Strength No. 2 Training Command 2019-08-20
1942-May-30 Accident: 1 Central Navigation School Loc: Rivers Manitoba Names: Collishaw | Goebels | Jones | Smight | Sprouls
1942-June-09 Accident: 1 Central Navigation School Loc: South Newdale Manitoba Names: Carter | Gauthier Dit Larouche | Mazure | Willoughby
1942-07-08 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20


1 CNS- Central Navigation School (1 Central Navigation School)

NO1 ANS Ansons Rivers MB

RCAF Roundel RCAF.info - RCAF Station Rivers MB

NO 1 ANS was redesignated NO1 Central Navigation School after an amalgamation with NO 2 ANS from Pennfield Ridge, NB May 11 1942

General Virtual Manitoba - Rivers History

1942-05-11 Primary Location Rivers MB Canada Current site of Wheatland Spuds Plain Airport CRS5

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