Toronto, Ontario
8 Service Flying Training School, Moncton, New Brunswick. Anson aircraft 8381 collided in mid-air with a Harvard aircraft and crashed four miles north of Moncton. Cpl. W. Schultz and Leading Aircraftman R. E. Langdon were also killed. All three airmen killed were in the Anson, there were no casualties in the Harvard.
Grierson, Erven Christopher (Pilot Officer)
Killed in Flying Accident 1942-October-21
Birth Date: 1917
Born:
Parents: Son of Hugh Umbstead Grierson and Edith Alberta Grierson, of Toronto; husband of Edna Grierson, of Toronto.
Spouse: Husband of Edna Grierson, of Toronto.
Home: Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RCAF
Unit
8 SFTS- Service Flying Training School
Base
Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Rank
Pilot Officer
Position
Pilot
Service Numbers
J/20369
Prev: R/80616
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Anson 8381
Accident Card - Avro Anson Mk. II serial:8381
This accident involved 2 aircraft on 1942-October-21. They are: Anson II s/n 8381, Harvard II s/n A3774.
This accident involved 5 people. Grierson IC, Langdon RE, Lynch FM, Schultz W, Waugh JW
This accident had 3 fatalities. Corporal William Schultz RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/60912 Anson 8381, Pilot Officer Erven Christopher Grierson RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/20369 Anson 8381, Leading Aircraftman Robert Edward Langdon RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/139317 Anson 8381
Unit Desciption
8 SFTS (8 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.
Harvard Formation
NO8 SFTS Moncton moved to Weyburn SK January 1944
For More Information on RCAF Station Moncton see here
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8 SFTS Moncton NB History
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