Ashcroft, Daniel Draper (Sergeant)

Killed in Flying Accident 1943-May-06

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Birth Date: 1924

Born:

Parents: Son of Edward and Elizabeth Ashcroft, of Aughton, Lancashire, England.

Spouse:

Home:

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RAFVR

Unit

39 SFTS- Service Flying Training School (RAF)

Base

RCAF Stn. Swift Current, Saskatchewan

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Service Numbers

1549249

Final Burial

Mount Pleasant Cemetery

39 SFTS, Swift Current, Sask.

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Crew or Other Personnel

Oxford BM718

Sergeant Daniel Draper Ashcroft RAFVR

Sergeant Ashcroft, Daniel Draper (RAFVR)

Killed in Flying Accident
1943-May-06
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada

Pilot Officer Leonard George Gray RAFVR

Pilot Officer Gray, Leonard George (RAFVR)

Killed in Flying Accident
1943-May-06
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada

Accident Card - Airspeed Oxford Mk. II serial:BM718

This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1943-May-06. Oxford II s/n BM718.

This accident involved 2 people. Gray LG, Ashcroft DD

This accident had 2 fatalities. Sergeant Daniel Draper Ashcroft RAFVR Killed in Flying Accident service no:1549249 Oxford BM718, Pilot Officer Leonard George Gray RAFVR Killed in Flying Accident service no:136452 Oxford BM718

Unit Desciption

39 SFTS (39 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.