PL - Arthur Harry Morton Killed

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Morton, Arthur Harry (Flight Sergeant)

Killed 1941-December-12

Canada

Birth Date: 1919-December-04 (age 22)

Captain Harry Morton and Winifred M. Morton, of Vancouver.

Home: Vancouver, British Columbia

Service
RCAF

Unit
9 SFTS- Service Flying Training School

Base
Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Marshal
Air Chief Marshal	A/C/M
Air Marshal	A/M
Air Vice Marshal	A/V/M
Air Commodore	A/C
Group Captain	G/C
Wing Commander	W/C
Squadron Leader	S/L
Flight Lieutenant	F/L
Flying Officer	F/O
Pilot Officer	P/O
Warrant Officer 1st Class	WO1
Warrant Officer 2nd Class	WO2
Flight Sergeant	FS
Sergeant	SGT
Corporal	CPL
Senior Aircraftman	SAC
Leading Aircraftman	LAC
Aircraftman 1st Class	AC1
Aircraftman 2nd Class	AC2

Position
aero engine mechanic

Service Numbers
2441

9 Service Flying Training School, Summerside, Prince Edward Island. FS Morton was in charge of a snow removing party on the tarmac at Summerside and was killed when he was run over by a crawler tractor and bulldozer.

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9 SFTS- Service Flying Training School (9 Service Flying Training School)

Graduates of the EFTS "learn-to-fly" program went on a Service Flying Training School (SFTS) for 16 weeks. For the first 8 weeks the trainee was part of an intermediate training squadron; for the next 6 weeks an advanced training squadron and for the final 2 weeks training was conducted at a Bombing & Gunnery School. The Service schools were military establishments run by the RCAF or the RAF.

There were two different types of Service Flying Training Schools. Trainees in the fighter pilot stream went to an SFTS like No. 14 Aylmer, where they trained in the North American Harvard or North American Yale. Trainees in the bomber, coastal or transport pilot stream went to an SFTS like No. 5 Brantford where they learned multi-engine technique in an Airspeed Oxford, Avro Anson or Cessna Crane.

Graduation Class Centralia

January 1941 School Formed at Summerside, Prince Edward Island.

6 July 1942 School moved to Centralia, Ontario
June 1945 - School was disbanded

1941-01-01 Primary Location Summerside PEI Canada Currently site of Summerside Airport CYSU
1941-01-01 Relief Field Wellington PEI Canada Approximate location returned to agriculture.
1941-01-01 Relief Field Mt Pleasant PEI Canada Abandoned returned to agriculture.
1942-07-08 Primary Location Centralia ON Canada Currently site of Centralia/James T. Field Memorial Airport CYCE
1942-07-08 Relief Field St Joseph ON Canada Approximate location returned to agriculture.
1942-07-08 Relief Field Grand Bend ON Canada Current site of Grand Bend Private Airport CPL4

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