William Kiewyryga Rank: Flight Sergeant Status: Died 1944-09-15

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Kiewyryga, William (Flight Sergeant)

Died 1944-September-15

Male Head

Birth Date: 1916 (age 28)

Son of Karl and Effle Kiewyryga, of Grande Pointe.

Home: Grande Pointe, Manitoba

Service
RCAF

Unit
7 AOS- Air Observer School

Base
Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Marshal
Air Chief Marshal	A/C/M
Air Marshal	A/M
Air Vice Marshal	A/V/M
Air Commodore	A/C
Group Captain	G/C
Wing Commander	W/C
Squadron Leader	S/L
Flight Lieutenant	F/L
Flying Officer	F/O
Pilot Officer	P/O
Warrant Officer 1st Class	WO1
Warrant Officer 2nd Class	WO2
Flight Sergeant	FS
Sergeant	SGT
Corporal	CPL
Senior Aircraftman	SAC
Leading Aircraftman	LAC
Aircraftman 1st Class	AC1
Aircraftman 2nd Class	AC2

Position
Pilot

Service Numbers
R/166294

7 Air Observers School, Portage La Prairie, Manitoba. RCAF Pilot on indefinite Leave Without Pay, Employed by Portage Air Observer School as a Staff Pilot. Died of surgical complications at the St Boniface Hospital, St Boniface, Manitoba while on leave without pay. Listed by several different names depending on document referenced. Birth Name: Wasyl Kiewyryga. Declaration on service file changed name to William Kiewyryga. Most Documents on service file have last name amended from Kiewyryga to Keveriga, Headstone reads Keweriga.

Canada Primary Source Ancestry.ca "� Service File of War Dead 1939-47

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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

Home

Grande Pointe, Manitoba

Burial
Google Map

Elmwood Cemetery
Sec 12A Grave 1386

7 AOS (7 Air Observer School)

Air Observers were later called "navigators". For recruits in this stream, the training path after ITS was 8 weeks at an Air Observer School (AOS), 1 month at a Bombing & Gunnery School, and finally 1 month at a Navigation School. The Air Observer schools were operated by civilians under contract to the RCAF. For example, Nos. 7, 8, and 9 were run by CP Airlines. However, the instructors were RCAF. The basic navigation techniques throughout the war years were dead reckoning and visual pilotage, and the tools were the aeronautical chart, magnetic compass, watch, trip log, pencil, Douglas protractor, and Dalton Navigational Computer. They trained in the Avro Anson.

RCAF Roundel RCAF.info - RCAF Station Portage la Prairie Manitoba

General Manitoba Historical Society - Portage Airport

Museum Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum - 7 AOS History

General University of Alberta -Souvenir History Of 7 AOS

Griffin Library, 17 Wing Winnipeg

Lancaster FM213

Andrew Mynarski, VC

Kiewyryga, William (Flight Sergeant)

Died 1944-September-15

7 AOS (7 Air Observer School)

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