Greenfield, Frederick William

Killed in Flying Accident 1941-08-14

Birth Date: 1919-November-08

Born:

Son of Joseph John and Dora Greenfield, of Madison.

Home: Madison, Saskatchewan

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

3 SFTS- Service Flying Training School

Base

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Rank

Leading Aircraftman

Position

Leading Aircraftman

Service Numbers

R/87072

Home
Google MapMadison, Saskatchewan
First Burial
Google MapMadison Cemetery, Madison, Saskatchewan
Anson aircraft 6568 missing whilst engaged in an instrument flying instruction flight, a local search was carried out without success. Aircraft from 3 SFTS and 31 EFTS as well as local radio stations and the RCMP were involved in the search and the aircraft was found crashed on the east side of Mount McDougall. Flying Officer I.M. Brown was also killed. One other airman, Leading Aircraftman McGruther survived the accident and was rescued by ground forces made up of RCAF personnel and civilians, some of them from the Bragg Creek area. In June of 1990 a cairn was erected as a permanent memorial on the Powderface Trail at the Canyon Creek Crossing. The Plaque reads, quote; IN MEMORIAM World War II Aircrew; On August 14, 1941 an Avro Anson training aircraft from No.3 Service Flying Training School crashed on Mount McDougall, about 7 miles west of this site. The lives of Flying Officer I.M. Sutherland-Brown and Leading Aircraftsman F.W. Greenfield were lost. Leading Aircraftsman A.M.R. McGruther was injured but survived the accident. Many lives were lost during the period of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan 1939 to 1945 as aircrew were being trained in Canada for overseas service. To their fond memory this plaque is donated.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

www.findagrave.com

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

This incident involved multiple aircraft:

  1. Anson Mk. I Serial: 6568

All the above aircraft in the above list are referenced in this report.

Findagrave.com

Anson 6568

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Flying Officer Brown, Ian Macdonnell Sutherland (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1941-August-14
Royal Oak Burial Park, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Leading Aircraftman Greenfield, Frederick William (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1941-August-14
Madison Cemetery, Madison, Saskatchewan, Canada

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.
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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

3 SFTS (3 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 Calgary see here

Canada Primary Source RCAF.info - RCAF Station Lincoln Park, Currie, Calgary Alberta

Canada Primary Source RCAF.info - Relief Landing Field Shepard Alberta

Museum Bomber Command Museum of Canada

General 3 SFTS Blog

General 3 SFTS Regimbal Chace Accident

Project 44 BCATP

General Project 44 BCATP

YouTube YouTube - Valour Canada Aerodrome of Democracy

Anson 6568

Anson Mk. I 6568

Ex RAF W2357. To No. 4 Training Command on 7 July 1941, for use by No. 3 Service Flying Training School at Calgary, Alberta. Category A crash 45 miles west of Calgary, at 17:00 on 14 August 1941. Pilot became trapped in a dead end canyon during unauthorised low flying, hit trees while attempting to turn around at west end of Canyon, on Mt. Dougall. Starboard horizontal stabilizer came off, aircraft then crashed into side of mountain. 2 fatalities, 1 survivor. To No. 10 Repair Depot at Calgary on 17 August 1941 for write off.

1941-05-27 Taken on Strength Aircraft Repair 2019-08-20
1941-August-14 Accident: 3 Service Flying Training School Loc: Calgary Names: Brown | Greenfield | Mcgruther
1941-09-13 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20