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CASPIR contains documents, images and history of Canada's military aviation. The personnel and aircraft data has been compiled using data provided by trusted Canadian military aviation historians and original source documents. Where possible source documents are linked.
Research

CASPIR Resources

RCAF Accident Cards (1939-1945) JA Griffin Documents 1968 and 2005 Obtaining a World War II Service File

External Resources

RCAF.info: Research Resources RCAF.info: Finding Your Family Records

Griffin Library, 17 Wing Winnipeg

John Griffin was a significant historian, documenting Canada's Military aircraft.
Aircraft

Military Aircraft Associated with Canadians Choose a Specific Aircraft Serial

Lancaster FM213

CWHM flies one of the two airworthy Lancasters in the world. FM213 is usually marked as KB726 honouring Andrew Mynarski, VC.
Personnel

Name or Home Town Search Unit (Squadron) Search Aircraft Type or Serial Search Browse by Letter This Day in History

War Status Search Catastrophic Losses (Ships Hotels Aircraft) Choose Specific Military Cemeteries (WW1 WW2 and Beyond)

Andrew Mynarski, VC

We Shall Remember Them.
History

Education & History
Start Here Glossary Canada and World War II Combatants & First Airmen Casualties Air Force Operations Battle of Britain Women in War War Artists Canada in Korean Air War 1950-1953

Blogs & Articles
CASPIR Overview First World War Neighbourhood - Dufferin & Dupont Canada's First Military Aeroplane 1917

"A" Able flying through the Eiffel Tower? (although this event likely happened, this photograph is likely fake.) It is signed by the late Bill Bryant RAF who was the navigator of that aircraft piloted by Bob Boorman RCAF. The caption reads "This Stars Stripes photograph was taken on 14 September 1944 and shows a Mosquito Mk XIII of 409 Squadron RCAF. Pilot - W/O Bob Boorman RCAF Navigator F/S Bill Bryant RAF Flying through the Eiffel Tower."
Contact

Dalgleish, Neil John (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Flying Accident 1942-December-20

Flight Sergeant Neil John Dalgleish RCAF

Birth Date: 1918-July-05

Born: Leduc Alberta

Parents: Alexander & Jean Dalgleish

Spouse:

Home: Grande Prairie, Alberta (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

8 BGS- Bombing & Gunnery School

Base

RCAF Stn. Lethbridge, Alberta

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

R/105922

Home

Google Map

Grande Prairie, Alberta (parents)

Final Burial

Google Map

Grande Prairie Cemetery
Lot 2 Block 21

Flight Sergeant Dalgleish, Leading Aircraftman E. Bohush, Pilot Officer G.H. Brazier, and Leading Aircraftman S.L. Palmer (RAAF) were on a routine air to ground gunnery exercise and were all killed when Bolingbroke aircraft 9898 crashed and burned fifteen miles south-west of the aerodrome at Lethbridge.

Canada Primary Source School Daily Diary Entry - 1942-12-20

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave Finadagrave.com

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Crew or Other Personnel

Bolingbroke 9898

Leading Aircraftman Eugene Bohush RCAF

Leading Aircraftman Bohush, Eugene (RCAF)

Killed in Flying Accident
1942-December-20
Burnsland Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Pilot Officer George Henry Brazier RCAF

Pilot Officer Brazier, George Henry (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1942-December-20
Meyronne Cemetery, Meyronne, Saskatchewan, Canada

Flight Sergeant Neil John Dalgleish RCAF

Flight Sergeant Dalgleish, Neil John (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1942-December-20
Grande Prairie Cemetery, Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada

Leading Aircraftman Stanley Leonard Palmer RAAF

Leading Aircraftman Palmer, Stanley Leonard (RAAF)

Killed in Flying Accident
1942-December-20
Mountain View Cemetery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Accident Card - Bristol Bolingbroke Mk. IVT serial:9898

This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1942-December-20. Bolingbroke II s/n 9898.

This accident involved 4 people. Bohush E, Brazier GH, Dalgleish NJ, Palmer SL

This accident had 4 fatalities. Pilot Officer George Henry Brazier RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/20200 Bolingbroke 9898, Leading Aircraftman Eugene Bohush RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/131732 Bolingbroke 9898, Flight Sergeant Neil John Dalgleish RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/105922 Bolingbroke 9898, Leading Aircraftman Stanley Leonard Palmer RAAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:414952 Bolingbroke 9898

Unit Desciption

8 BGS (8 Bomb and Gunnery School)

The Bombing and Gunnery School (B&GS) offered instruction in the techniques of bomb aiming and aerial machine gunnery to Air Observers, Bomb Aimers, and Wireless Air Gunners. These schools required large areas to accommodate their bombing and gunnery ranges, and were often located near water. The Avro Anson, Fairey Battle, Bristol Bolingbroke, and Westland Lysander were the standard aircraft used at B&GS schools.

RCAF Lethbridge AB

Established in 1940 at the present site of Lethbridge Airport CYQL.

More information on the RCAF Station at Lethbridge AB can be found at

Royal Canadian Air Force RCAF.Info - RCAF Station Lethbridge

Museum Bomber Command Museum Of Canada

Museum Vintage Wings - Ghosts Of Alberta

Museum Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum - 8 BGS

Project 44 BCATP

Unvetted Source Project 44 BCATP

YouTube YouTube - Valour Canada Aerodrome of Democracy