Jarvis, Leonard Fitzgerald

Killed in Flying Accident 1945-03-14

Birth Date: 1910-April-16

Born: Ottawa, Ontario

Frances Geraldine Fitzgerald Jarvis of Bridgetown, Barbados, BWI & the late L/Col Arthur Leonard Fitzgerald Jarvis of Ottawa, Ontario

Home: Ottawa, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

246 (T) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)

Base

RAF Holmsley South

Rank

Flight Lieutenant

Position

Flight Lieutenant

Service Numbers

C/8309

Jarvis died when Liberator EW-626, on which he was a passenger, crashed on take-off from Lagens Airfield, 4 miles west of Agualva, Azores.

Killed includes Jarvis:LAC William Bridgen RAF KIFA Lajes War Cemetery, Azores, Row E. Grave 7.WO Dalibor Brochard RAF KIFA Lajes War Cemetery, Row D. Grave 10.Sergeant George Alexander Cain RAF KIFA Lajes War Cemetery, Row E. Grave 2.Squadron Leader Arthur John Davey RAF KIFA Lajes War Cemetery, Row D. Grave 2.LAC Charles Stuart Hubbard RAF KIFA Lajes War Cemetery, Row E. Grave 9.Cpl Frederick Jeckells RAF KIFA Lajes War Cemetery, Row E. Grave 4.Flying Officer Vaclav Jilek RAF KIFA Lajes War Cemetery, Row D. Grave 8.LAC Edgar Jones RAF KIFA Lajes War Cemetery, Row E. Grave 5.Flight Sergeant Ludvik Kondziolka RAF KIFA Lajes War Cemetery, Row E. Grave 1.Sergeant John Henry Lawrence RAF KIFA Lajes War Cemetery, Row E. Grave 3.LAC David Lindsay RAF KIFA Lajes War Cemetery, Row E. Grave 8.Flying Officer Cyril George Montgomery RAF KIFA Lajes War Cemetery, Row D. Grave 7.F/Lt Alistair Kay Murdoch RAF KIFA Lajes War Cemetery, Row D. Grave 5.Cpl William McKenzie RAF KIFA Lajes War Cemetery, Row E. Grave 6.F/Lt Alois Jaroslav Volek RAF KIFA Lajes War Cemetery, Row D. Grave 6.Flying Officer Anthony Peter Ramsden Walker RAF pilot KIFA Lajes War Cemetery, Row D. Grave 9.F/Lt John Edward Yarnall RAF KIFA Lajes War Cemetery, Row D. Grave 3.

Consolidated Liberator B-24 / F-7

(DND Photos via James Craik) (Source Harold A Skaarup Web Page)
Consolidated Liberator G.R. Mk. VIII, RCAF (Serial No. 11130) ex-USAAF Consolidated (Vultee) B-24L Liberator USAAF (44-50154)
ex-RAF (Serial No. 5009), ex-Indian Air Force (Serial No. HE773).
Currently preserved in the Canada Aviation and Space Museum Ottawa Ontario.
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The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was an American heavy bomber flown by the RCAF during the Second Word War. It was designed with a shoulder-mounted, high aspect ratio Davis wing which gave the Liberator a high cruise speed, long range and the ability to carry a heavy bomb load. Early RAF Liberators were the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic Ocean as a matter of routine. In comparison with its contemporaries the B-24 was relatively difficult to fly and had poor low speed performance; it also had a lower ceiling compared with the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Of the roughly 18,500 B-24s built in the USA during the war, 148 were flown by the RCAF on long range anti-submarine patrols, with the B-24 serving an instrumental role in closing the Mid-Atlantic gap in the Battle of the Atlantic. The RCAF also flew a few B-24s post war as transports.

Roughly half of all (RAF) Liberator crews in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theatre were Canadian by the end of the war. John Muir of Vancouver flew the longest mission of the war: 24hrs, 10mins from Ceylon to Burma and back. (Kyle Hood) Harold Skaarup web page


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