Gray, Gordon (Leading Aircraftman)

Killed in Flying Accident 1942-July-31

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Birth Date: 1923

Born:

Parents: Son of William and Jessie Gray, of Kirn, Argyllshire, Scotland.

Spouse:

Home:

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RAFVR

Unit

4 SFTS- Service Flying Training School

Base

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Rank

Leading Aircraftman

Position

Service Numbers

1361191

Final Burial

Woodlawn Cemetery Saskatoon
Block J Lot 130 Grave 10914

Pilot Officer AA Currie (RCAF), LAC(P) EA Seeds (RCAF), and Leading Aircraftman G Gray (RAFVR) were killed when their Cessna Crane I aircraft 7719 dived vertically into the ground and burned one and one half miles east of Warman, Saskatchewan

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Crew or Other Personnel

Crane 7719

Pilot Officer Arthur Archibald Currie RCAF

Pilot Officer Currie, Arthur Archibald (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1942-July-31
Eagle Lake Cemetery, Netherhill, Saskatchewan, Canada

Leading Aircraftman Gordon Gray RAFVR

Leading Aircraftman Gray, Gordon (RAFVR)

Killed in Flying Accident
1942-July-31
Woodlawn Cemetery Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Leading Aircraftman Ernest Albert Seeds RCAF

Leading Aircraftman Seeds, Ernest Albert (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1942-July-31
Capilano View Cemetery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Accident Card - Cessna Crane Mk. I serial:7719

This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1942-July-31. Cessna Crane I s/n 7719.

This accident involved 3 people. Currie AA, Gray G, Seeds EA

This accident had 3 fatalities. Leading Aircraftman Gordon Gray RAFVR Killed in Flying Accident service no:1361191 Crane 7719, Leading Aircraftman Ernest Albert Seeds RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/128925 Crane 7719, Pilot Officer Arthur Archibald Currie RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/10804 Crane 7719

Unit Desciption

4 SFTS (4 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.