Spitfire N3185 Mk Ia - Combat - 1940-05-15 to 1940-05-15
Squadron: 54 (F) Sqn (RAF)
Start Date: 1940-05-15
Completion Date: 1940-05-15
Mission: Combat
Operation: unspecified
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Base: RAF Hornchurch, Essex
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Squadron Code: KL-G
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Crash City: England
Crash Specifics: he Thornton Park Golf Course, near Brentwood, Essex
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
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54 Squadron RAF (Audax omnia perpeti), RAF Hornchurch. Flying Officer Donald Sprague Ross (RAF)(Can) was killed in action when his Spitfire Ia aircraft N3185 KL-G crashed on the Thornton Park Golf Course, near Brentwood, Essex, England returning from a fighter sweep

Flying Officer Ross's body was returned to Canada and he was buried in the Family Plot in Woodstock, Carleton County, New Brunswick

Canadians in the Royal Air Force by Les Allison, page 186

Unvetted Source Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database

Unvetted Source Aviation Safety Network

Unvetted Source Crashes_in_East_Anglia.pdf

Unvetted Source FO Donald Sprauge Ross (1918-1940) - Find A Grave Memorial

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