Frances Noreen Schofield Rank: Aircraftwoman Class II Status: Killed 1945-04-23

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Schofield, Frances Noreen (Aircraftwoman Class II)

Killed 1945-April-23

Birth Date: 1924-October-03 (age 20)

Born: Nictoux Falls, Nova Scotia

Daughter of Arthur Vernon Schofield and Minnie Schofield, of Chester Basin.

Home: Chester Basin, Nova Scotia

Enlistment: Halifax, Nova Scotia

Enlistment Date: 1943-03-16

Service
RCAFWD

Unit
9 BGS- Bombing & Gunnery School

Base
Mont Joli, Quebec, Canada

Rank

Position
clerk

Service Numbers
W/310523
Prev: W310523

RCAF Station Mont Joli, Quebec. AW.2 Schofield was on annual leave when she was killed in a train wreck at Moncton, New Brunswick.

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

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave.com Finadagrave.com

Home

Chester Basin, Nova Scotia

Burial
Google Map

Nictaux Cemetery
Lot 152

9 BGS (9 Bomb and Gunnery School)

The Bombing and Gunnery School (B&GS) offered instruction in the techniques of bomb aiming and aerial machine gunnery to Air Observers, Bomb Aimers, and Wireless Air Gunners. These schools required large areas to accommodate their bombing and gunnery ranges, and were often located near water. The Avro Anson, Fairey Battle, Bristol Bolingbroke, and Westland Lysander were the standard aircraft used at B&GS schools.

Class19 NO9 BGS Mont Joli

RCAF Roundel RCAF.info - RCAF Station Mont Joli QC

General 9 BGS History

General Ted Church Tail End Charlie - 9 BGS History

Griffin Library, 17 Wing Winnipeg

Lancaster FM213

Andrew Mynarski, VC

Schofield, Frances Noreen (Aircraftwoman Class II)

Killed 1945-April-23

9 BGS (9 Bomb and Gunnery School)

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