Taylor, Alvin Mansfield (Sergeant)

Killed in Flying Accident 1944-October-19

Sergeant Alvin Mansfield Taylor RCAF

Birth Date: 1924

Born:

Parents: Son of Thomas Mansell Taylor and Florence Irene Taylor, of Stratford.

Spouse:

Home: Stratford, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

7 SFTS- Service Flying Training School

Base

RCAF Stn. MacLeod, Alberta

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

R/209531

Home
Google MapStratford, Ontario
Final Burial
Google MapAvondale Cemetery
Range 3 Plot 97
Sergeant A.M. Taylor and Sergeant A.E. Churcher were engaged in circuits and aerobatics when they dove into a valley three miles northwest of Brocket, Alberta. They were both killed when Harvard aircraft FH 121 mushed into the crest of a hill when the pilot tried to recover from the dive.

Canada Primary Source School Daily Diary Entry - 1944-10-19

Canada Primary Source School Daily Diary Entry - October 1944 Annex "B" Accidents

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave Finadagrave.com

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

Accident Card - North American Harvard Mk. IIB serial:FH121

This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1944-October-19. Harvard s/n FH121.

This accident involved 2 people. Churcher AE, Taylor AM

This accident had 2 fatalities. Sergeant Alvin Mansfield Taylor RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/209531 Harvard FH121, Sergeant Almer Ebert Churcher RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/207797 Harvard FH121

Unit Desciption

7 SFTS (7 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.

Avro Anson Training Flight

For More information on RCAF Station Fort McLeod see here

Royal Canadian Air Force RCAF.info - RCAF Station MacLeod AB

Royal Canadian Air Force RCAF.info - Relief Landing Field Granum AB

Royal Canadian Air Force RCAF.info - Relief Landing Field Standoff AB

Museum Bomber Command Museum Of Canada

Museum Vintage Wings - Ghosts Of Southern Alberta

Project 44 BCATP

Unvetted Source Project 44 BCATP

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