Booker, Harold William (Leading Aircraftman)

Killed in Flying Accident 1943-October-18

Male Head

Birth Date: 1923

Born:

Parents: Frederick William Henry Booker & Gladys Gwendoline Booker

Spouse:

Home: Barry, Glamorgan, Wales.

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RAFVR

Unit

39 SFTS- Service Flying Training School (RAF)

Base

RCAF Stn. Swift Current, Saskatchewan

Rank

Leading Aircraftman

Position

pilot

Service Numbers

1653357

Home

Barry, Glamorgan, Wales.

Temporary Burial

Doingt Communal Cemetery, Doingt, Belgium

Final Burial

Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Block 2 Grave 18

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Crew or Other Personnel

Oxford X6963

Leading Aircraftman Harold William Booker RAFVR

Leading Aircraftman Booker, Harold William (RAFVR)
pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1943-October-18
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada

Sergeant Frank Albert Sterry RAF

Sergeant Sterry, Frank Albert (RAF)

Killed in Flying Accident
1943-October-18
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada

Accident Card - Airspeed Oxford Mk. I serial:X6963

This accident involved 2 aircraft on 1943-October-18. They are: Oxford II s/n X6963, Oxford II s/n BM769.

This accident involved 3 people. Booker HW, Sterry FA, Tough LJ

This accident had 2 fatalities. Leading Aircraftman Harold William Booker RAFVR Killed in Flying Accident service no:1653357 Oxford X6963, Sergeant Frank Albert Sterry RAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:574759 Oxford X6963

Unit Desciption

39 SFTS (39 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.