Birth Date: 1905 (age 38)
Samuel Chalmers & Rose E. Chalmers (nee Claydon)
Barbara V. Chalmers, of Osoyoos, British Columbia.
Home: Rosewood, Manitoba
Marshal | |
Air Chief Marshal | A/C/M |
Air Marshal | A/M |
Air Vice Marshal | A/V/M |
Air Commodore | A/C |
Group Captain | G/C |
Wing Commander | W/C |
Squadron Leader | S/L |
Flight Lieutenant | F/L |
Flying Officer | F/O |
Pilot Officer | P/O |
Warrant Officer 1st Class | WO1 |
Warrant Officer 2nd Class | WO2 |
Flight Sergeant | FS |
Sergeant | SGT |
Corporal | CPL |
Senior Aircraftman | SAC |
Leading Aircraftman | LAC |
Aircraftman 1st Class | AC1 |
Aircraftman 2nd Class | AC2 |
3 Personnel Reception Centre for Dominion aircrew and 11 Australian Personnel Dispatch and Receiving Centre at RAF Bournemouth, England.
Twenty-one airmen were killed in the Metropole Hotel, Lansdowne Square, during an enemy bombing attack against the town of Bournemouth, England, where hundreds of Canadian airmen were staying. Central Hotel, also bombed, was similarly full of Australians.
FS WG Abbott (RCAF), FS G Assaf (RCAF), FS JL Soos (RCAF), Leading Aircraftman EOM Gilbert (RCAF), Sergeant DR Chalmers (RCAF), Sergeant RR Courtney (RCAF), Sergeant AC Matheson (RCAF), Sergeant FJ Metier (RCAF), Sergeant RF Pelrine (RCAF), Sergeant RC Woods (RCAF), Cpl WG Wood (RCAF), FS CB Crabbe (RAAF), FS RF Fenton (RAAF), FS AJ Kerrigan (RAAF), FS JF McMahon (RAAF), FS VL Pope (RAAF), Sergeant NM Gray (RAAF), Leading Aircraftman R Crawshaw (RAF), Leading Aircraftman J Howlett (RAF), AC2 AJP Lohoar (RAF), and AC1 JJ Morrissey (RAF) were all killed. Although the actual number may never be known, at least 131 people, military and civilian, were killed and many more injured in this raid, seen as retaliation for the Ruhr Valley Dambuster Raids the previous week.Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)