Calderwood, Jack Sidney Alexander

Killed in Action 1941-12-13

Birth Date: 1918-October-26

Born:

Home: Windsor, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

107 (MB) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Nous Y Serons We shall be there

Base

RAF Luqa, Malta

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Flight Sergeant

Service Numbers

R/64430

Took off from Luqa, Malta on a bombing mission to Argostoli Harbor, Greece.

Shot down into the sea by enemy aircraft, no survivors.

Killed includes Calderwood:Flight Sergeant Albert Perry McLean RCAF R/70457 KIA Phaleron War Cemetery, Greece, Plot 21. Row B. Grave 4.Sergeant Ronald Davidson Gracie RAF pilot KIA Phaleron War Cemetery, Lt Ellis Edward Chetwynd Talbot GC, MBE Royal Engineers KIA whilst acting as a liaison officer to the RAF on Malta, Phaleron War Cemetery, Greece.

Flight Sergeant Calderwood had been slightly injured on 1941-06-18 in a 17 OTU aircraft accident at Evesham, Pershore, Worcester, England.

Bristol Blenheim

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3602838)
Bristol 142M Blenheim Mk.V, RAF (Serial No. DJ702).
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The Bristol Blenheim is a British light bomber aircraft designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company (Bristol) which was used extensively in the first two years and in some cases throughout the Second World War. The aircraft was developed as Type 142, a civil airliner, in response to a challenge from Lord Rothermere to produce the fastest commercial aircraft in Europe. The Type 142 first flew in April 1935, and the Air Ministry, impressed by its performance, ordered a modified design as the Type 142M for the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a bomber. Deliveries of the newly named Blenheim to RAF squadrons commenced on 10 March 1937. Wikipedia

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