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Clarkson, Joseph Walter (Leading Aircraftman)

Killed in Flying Accident 1941-June-20

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Birth Date: 1916 (age 25)

Service
RAFVR
Unit
31 ANS- Air Navigation School (RAF)
Base
Port Albert, Ontario, Canada
Rank
Leading Aircraftman
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
Service Numbers
1051926
31 Air Navigation School, Port Albert, Ontario Anson Mk I N-5353 missing on an air navigational training flight over Lake Huron near Goderich, Ontario.

Killed includes Clarkson: Corp. Clifford Douglas Bradbury RAF KIFA Ottawa Memorial Panel 1. Column 1. LAC Douglas Charles Frank Evans RAF KIFA Ottawa Memorial Panel 1. Column 2. Pilot Officer Joseph George Jones RAF KIFA Ottawa Memorial Panel 1. Column 1.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave.com Finadagrave.com

Leading Aircraftman Joseph Walter Clarkson has no known grave.


Google MapOttawa War Memorial
Panel 1 Column 1

Anson N5353

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 N5353

To No. 1 Training Command on 18 November 1940, for use by No. 31 Air Navigation School at Port Albert, Ontario. Delivered from de Havilland Canada to Port Albert by crew from No. 31 ANS on 19 November 1940. Disappeared over Lake Huron near Goderich, Ontario on 20 June 1941 during a navigation exercise. Sidcot suit and navigators instruments belonging to Leading Aircraftman J.W. Clarkson later found 4 miles off shore, 6 miles south-west of Goderich at 13:00 on 21 June 1941. Had 657:55 time in log book at time of crash. Pilot Sgt. J.G. Jones, Clarkson, and 2 others missing.

1940-11-12 Taken on Strength de Havilland Canada 2019-08-20
1941-June-20 Accident: 31 Air Navigation School Loc: Names: Bradbury | Clarkson | Evans | Jones
1941-09-06 Struck off Strength 2019-08-20

31 ANS (31 Air Navigation School)

Nos. 1 & 2 Air Navigation Schools offered four-week courses in astronavigation and were the last step for Air Observers.

The RAF schools, Nos. 31, 32, and 33, provided the same training as Air Observer Schools.

NO31 ANS Port Albert ON
Originally Navigation School No. 48 General Reconnaissance from St. Athan, Wales, which moved to Port Albert as No. 31 Air Navigation School in October 1940.

RCAF Roundel RCAF.info - RCAF Station Port Albert On

General HuronCounty.ca - 31 ANS History

General RAF Metman - 31 ANS History

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