Birth Date: 1915-March-22
Born: Toronto, Ontario
Parents: Alfred Charles & Dora (nee Ellicott) Cornell
Spouse: Betty Dorothy (nee Ruddell) Cornell
Home: Toronto, Ontario (parents)
Enlistment: Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment Date: 1941-May-16
Service
RCAF
Unit
2 SFTS- Service Flying Training School
Base
RCAF Stn. Uplands, Ottawa, Ontario
Rank
Leading Aircraftman
Position
Pilot
Service Numbers
R/105098
Took off from RCAF Uplands on a routine daylight navigation exercise.
Occupants were killed when Harvard aircraft 3237 crashed at Kingston, Ontario.
Killed: Sergeant Gordon Francis Joseph Clark, RCAF, pilot, KIFA Cataraqui Cemetery, Kingston, Ontario grave Sec. E. Lot 372. LAC Alfred Charles Cornell, RCAF, pilot, KIFA, St Johns Norway Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario grave Sec. 15. Range 1. Plot 19.
This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1942-January-26. Harvard s/n 3237.
This accident involved 2 people. Clark GFJ, Cornell AC
This accident had 2 fatalities. Leading Aircraftman Alfred Charles Cornell RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/105098 Harvard 3237, Sergeant Gordon Francis Joseph Clark RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/96007 Harvard 3237
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.
RCAF Station Uplands now the site of Ottawa International Airport CYOW.
For More Information on RCAF Station Uplands See here
RCAF.info - RCAF Station Uplands Ottawa Ontario
RCAF.info - Relief Landing Field Carp Ontario
RCAF.info - Relief Landing Field Edwards Ontario
Toronto, Ontario (parents)
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Finadagrave.com
Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)
Vintage Wings - Inside Uplands
2 SFTS Uplands History
YouTube - Valour Canada Aerodrome of Democracy