School Daily Diary Entry – 1945-01-07
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Find-A-Grave.com
Vancouver, British ColumbiaAvro Anson
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
Harold A Skaarup Web Page
Avro Anson HistoryCASPIR Aircraft Groups:
RCAF On Strength (4404), RCAF 400 Squadron (6), Canadian Aircraft Losses (257)Anson Mk. I 7013
Ex RAF AX131. To storage when first taken on strength, stored at Long Branch Race Track near Toronto. To Central Aircraft on 23 October 1944 for erection. To storage with No. 1 Training Command on 17 November 1943, issued from storage on 23 November 1943. With No. 1 Bombing & Gunnery School at Jarvis, Ontario when it crashed on 7 January 1945. Noted as "completely destroyed". Those killed included the pilot, T.H. Perley-Martin, who had survived falling out of Avro Prefect 267 on 30 August 1939. Ownership to No. 1 Air Command on 15 January 1945.
1941-11-10 Taken on Strength No. 12 Technical Detachment 2019-08-20
1944-January-07 Accident: 1 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: West Of Jarvis Names: Bernhardt | Greenberg | Holt | Perley-martin
1945-03-26 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20
RCAF.info - RCAF Station Jarvis Ontario
or …