Claresholm Cemetery
Was killed in the crash of Anson aircraft 8627. At the time of the crash the aircraft was engaged in a low level navigation exercise, when it collided with a ferry cable which was suspended 25 feet above the ice. The aircraft crashed onto the river ice ten miles south of Bassano, Alberta also killing two RAF airmen, Flight Sergeant Tame was a Link Trainer Instructor and was killed when Anson aircraft 8627, engaged in a low level navigation exercise, collided with a ferry cable which was suspended 25 feet above the ice. The aircraft crashed onto the river ice ten miles south of Bassano, Alberta. The following personnel were killed in this crash, Sergeant Kenneth Leslie Sutton, Flight Sergeant Leslie John Tame, and Leading Aircraftman Ian Robert Vidler
Sutton, Kenneth Leslie (Pilot Officer)
Killed in Flying Accident 1945-January-21
Birth Date: 1923-November-17
Born:
Parents: Leslie Harry and Elsie Sutton, of Kingskerswell, Devon, England.
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Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RAFVR
Unit
15 SFTS- Service Flying Training School
Base
Claresholm, Alberta, Canada
Rank
Pilot Officer
Position
P
Service Numbers
195512
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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Anson 8627
Accident Card - Avro Anson Mk. II serial:8627
This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1945-January-21. Anson II s/n 8627.
This accident involved 3 people. Sutton KL, Tame LJ, Vidler IR
This accident had 3 fatalities. Leading Aircraftman Ian Robert Vidler RAAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:118598 Anson 8627, Pilot Officer Kenneth Leslie Sutton RAFVR Killed in Flying Accident service no:195512 Anson 8627, Flight Sergeant Leslie John Tame RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/166793 Anson 8627
Unit Desciption
15 SFTS (15 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.
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