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Benson, Johann Aubrey (Sergeant)

Killed in Flying Accident 1943-August-11

Birth Date: 1920-April-09 (age 23)

Son of Johann and Minnie H. L. Benson, of Norwood.

Home: Norwood, Manitoba

Service
RCAF
Unit
8 AOS- Air Observer School
Base
Ancienne Lorrette, Quebec, 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
Pilot
Service Numbers
R/106241
8 Air Observers School, Ancienne Lorette, Quebec. Anson aircraft crashed.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave.com Finadagrave.com

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

Home
Google MapNorwood, Manitoba
Burial
Google MapBrookside Cemetery
Mil Sec Lot 1920

Anson 6471

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

last update: 2022-02-22 21:45:24

Anson Mk. I 6471

Ex RAF W1831. To No. 4 Training Command on 23 May 1941, for use by No. 3 Service Flying Training School at Calgary, Alberta. To No. 2 Training Command on 24 January 1942. To MacDonald Brothers Aircraft for overhaul, 4 August to 23 September 1942. Winterized during this overhaul. To No. 3 Training Command when completed, for use by No. 9 Air Observers School at St. Jean, Quebec. Crashed near St. Charles de Mandeville, Quebec, date uncertain. Wreckage collected at No. 9 Repair Depot on 1 September 1943, for scrapping.

1941-01-09 Taken on Strength Aircraft Repair 2019-08-20
1942-October-14 Accident: 9 Air Observer School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cannon | Ridgeway | Schmits | Stewart
1943-January-27 Accident: 9 Air Observer School Loc: Runway St Johns Names: Bolingbroke | Davoud | Jones
1943-August-11 Accident: 8 Air Observer School Loc: St Gabriel Names: Benson | Ewart | Riley | Rolinger | Schryburt
1943-12-15 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20

8 AOS (8 Air Observer School)

Air Observers were later called "navigators". For recruits in this stream, the training path after ITS was 8 weeks at an Air Observer School (AOS), 1 month at a Bombing & Gunnery School, and finally 1 month at a Navigation School. The Air Observer schools were operated by civilians under contract to the RCAF. For example, Nos. 7, 8, and 9 were run by CP Airlines. However, the instructors were RCAF. The basic navigation techniques throughout the war years were dead reckoning and visual pilotage, and the tools were the aeronautical chart, magnetic compass, watch, trip log, pencil, Douglas protractor, and Dalton Navigational Computer. They trained in the Avro Anson.

RCAF Roundel RCAF.info - RCAF Station L'Ancienne Lorrette QC

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