Cockroft, Robert Vernon
Died 1942-03-11
Birth Date: 1921
Born:
F/Sgt R Cockcroft & Florence E Cockcroft, of Clifton, Bedfordshire, England.
Home:
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RAF
Unit
32 SFTS- Service Flying Training School (RAF)
Base
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
Rank
Leading Aircraftman
Position
Leading Aircraftman
Service Numbers
1216583
Royal Oak Burial Park, Victoria, British Columbia, CanadaDied in the stores area at RCAF Moose Jaw Saskatchewan when he shot himself in the head with a service rifle.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)32 SFTS (32 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.
For more Information on RCAF Station Moose Jaw see here
RCAF.Info - RCAF Station Moose Jaw SK
RCAF.Info - Relief Landing Field Buttress SK
RCAF.Info - Relief Landing Field Burdick SK
RCAF.Info - Relief Landing Field Caron SK
YouTube - Abandoned Saskatchewan
Project 44 BCATP