Cenotaph: Consolidated Liberator Harry Cemetery, Saint-Donat, Lanaudiere Region, Quebec
Barabonoff, Joseph Alexander (Warrant Officer 2)
Killed in Flying Accident 1943-October-20
Birth Date: 1923-February-01
Born: Whitebeech, Yorkton Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada
Parents: Son of Alexander and Polly (nee Zieben) Barabonoff, of Whitebeech, Saskatchewan
Spouse:
Home: Whitebeech, Saskatchewan
Enlistment: Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment Date: 1941-September-01
Service
RCAF
Unit
10 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Rem Acu Tangere To hit the mark
Base
RCAF Stn. Gander, Newfoundland
Rank
Warrant Officer 2
Position
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Service Numbers
R/129211
Temporary Burial
at crash site on Black Mountain, Quebec
Remains were later exhumed from this location and reburied
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Liberator 3701
Accident Card - Consolidated Liberator B-24D / Mk. V serial:3701
This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1943-October-20. Liberator V s/n 3701.
This accident involved 24 people. MacDonald RW, Sanderson SA, Poirier JAR, Lamont J, Johnson JS, Jenkins FE, Barabanoff JA, Fisher RF, Howlett W, Ware RF, Mcnaughton WG, Finn EM, Silverstein J, Read EW, Veilleux JAJP, Dynes CL, Hambly HK, Johnston AC, Marr RD, Patterson GR, Radcliffe AJ, Elliott FH, Wood SA, Beattie HD
This accident had 24 fatalities. Sergeant Eric Morgan Finn RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/72026 Liberator 3701, Sergeant Stanley Albert Wood RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/51027 Liberator 3701, Leading Aircraftman Joseph Achille Jean Paul Veilleux RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/177329 Liberator 3701, Flight Lieutenant Robert Frank Fisher RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/5821 Liberator 3701, Leading Aircraftman Edwin William Read RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/150207 Liberator 3701, Sergeant William Gordon MacNaughton RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/7526 Liberator 3701, Corporal Howard Kenneth Hambly RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/78656 Liberator 3701, Pilot Officer Robert William MacDonald RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/37357 Liberator 3701, Leading Aircraftman Albert James Radcliffe RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/177668 Liberator 3701, Corporal Ronald Douglas Marr RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/99167 Liberator 3701, Warrant Officer 2 Joseph Alexander Barabonoff RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/129211 Liberator 3701, Flight Lieutenant Joseph Alfred Raymond Poirier RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/9147 Liberator 3701, Corporal Harold David Beattie RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/84899 Liberator 3701, Warrant Officer 1 Franklin Elwood Jenkins RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/72936 Liberator 3701, Flying Officer Jay Syver Johnston RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/7987 Liberator 3701, Flt. Sergeant Raymond Frank Ware RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:4074 Liberator 3701, Corporal Alec Clarence Johnston RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/64066 Liberator 3701, Leading Aircraftman Charles Laurie Dynes RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/173349 Liberator 3701, Warrant Officer 1 Jacob Silverstein RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/67673 Liberator 3701, Leading Aircraftman Guy Ridgewood Patterson RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/207868 Liberator 3701, Flying Officer Stephen Andrew Sanderson RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/21297 Liberator 3701, Warrant Officer 1 Wilfred Howlett RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/113408 Liberator 3701, Sergeant Franklin Hicks Elliott RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/74645 Liberator 3701, Pilot Officer James Lamont RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/39103 Liberator 3701
Mission
Liberator B-24D / Mk. V 3701
Transport 1943-October-20 to 1943-October-20
10 (BR) Sqn (RCAF) RCAF Station Gander
10 North Atlantic (BR) Squadron, Gander, Newfoundland. Liberator V aircraft 3701 H flying from Gander, Newfoundland to Mont Joli, Quebec was redirected to Dorval, Quebec due to poor weather conditions at Mont Joli. Nothing further was heard from the aircraft before it crashed and burned on the west side of the 2,500 foot foothill of Black Mountain, Quebec. A search at the time of the crash failed to find the crash site. The wreckage of the aircraft and remains of the 24 casualties was not located until 1946-06-20. A Memorial Cairn was erected on the Black Mountain crash site in memory of those who lost their lives there
Flight Crew: Sergeant WG MacNaughton MiD (RCAF), Flight Lieutenant JA Poirier (RCAF), Flying Officer SA Sanderson AFM (RCAF), Warrant Officer Class 2 JA Barabonoff (RCAF), Warrant Officer Class 1 J Silverstein MiD (RCAF), Pilot Officer RW MacDonald MiD (RCAF)
Passengers: Flight Lieutenant RF Fisher MiD (RCAF), Warrant Officer Class 1 W Howlett (RCAF), Warrant Officer Class 1 FE Jenkins (RCAF), Cpl HD Beattie (RCAF), Cpl RD Marr (RCAF), Cpl HK Hambly (RCAF), Cpl AC Johnston (RCAF), Pilot Officer J Lamont MiD (RCAF), Leading Aircraftman CL Dynes (RCAF), Leading Aircraftman GR Patterson (RCAF), Leading Aircraftman AJ Radcliffe (RCAF), Leading Aircraftman EW Read (RCAF)(USA), Sergeant FH Elliott (RCAF)(USA), Sergeant EM Finn (RCAF), Leading Aircraftman JAJP Veilleux (RCAF), FS RF Ware (RCAF), Sergeant SA Wood (RCAF) and Flying Officer JS Johnston MiD (RCAF) were all killed in this flying accident
All were buried at the crash site where the cairn stands in their honour until 1985, when the crews remains were exhumed and moved to a cemetery St. Donat, Quebec due to vandalism at the crash site. Detail provided by C Lambert
The Liberator in Royal Air Force and Commonwealth Service by James D Oughton page 263
19/20.1943. No.10 RCAF Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron B-24...
Liberator RCAF 3701 [Royal Air Force Aircraft Serial and Image]...
Unit Desciption
10 (B) Sqn Rem Acu Tangere (Blackburn's Own)
No 10 Squadron RFC was originally formed at Farnborough, Hampshire on January 1, 1915. It served on the Western Front in WWI, transferring to the RAF when the latter was formed in 1918. The squadron returned to England in February 1919 and was disbanded on December 31.
The squadron was re-formed as a heavy bomber unit in January 1928. A heavy-bomber unit, it flew Handley-Page Hyderabads, followed by Hinaidis and then Heyfords through the 1930s. By the time that WWII started, the squadron was equipped with Armstrong-Whitworth Whitley aircraft. Operating from Dishforth, Yorkshire, it took part in a number of leaflet raids over Germany, including being the first RAF aircraft to drop leaflets over Berlin on 1/2 October 1939. Detachments of the Squadron were based in France (Villeneuve) and Scotland (Kinloss), between October 1939 and March 1940, the latter being with Coastal Command. The squadron's first bombing raid was on the night of 19/20 March, 1940, attacking the German mining seaplane base at Hornum, on the island of Sylt. When Italy entered the war in June 1940, the squadron flew from Guernsey in the Channel Islands to attack targets in Italy.
In July 1940 the squadron moved to the nearby base of Leeming, Yorkshire, where it remained until August 1942. From December 1942 the squadron was re-equipped with Halifax aircraft. In the first quarter of 1942, There were detachments to Lossiemouth, Scotland, for operations against the battleship Tirpitz, which at that time was based near Trondheim, Norway. It was on one of these operations, on the night of 27/28 April that the squadron commander. W/C D.C.T. Bennett, was shot down, but he and his crew escaped to Sweden and were interned and subsequently returned to England. W/C (later Air Vice Marshal) Bennet subsequently was appointed to form and lead the Pathfinder Force, which became No. 8 Group of Bomber Command. From June 1942 a detachment of the squadron (16 aircraft and crews) moved to Palestine and then to Egypt, operating against Tobruk. This detachment then combined with No. 6/462 squadron to form No.462 (RAAF) Squadron in September 1942. The main No. 10 Squadron continued to operate with No. 4 Group, Bomber Command from Leeming at this time, but then moved to Melbourne, Yorkshire in August 1942, where it remained until May 1945. It was transferred to Transport Command on May 7, 1945 and disbanded on December 20 1947. It later was re-formed and flew Canberras and Victors.
Liberator 3701 B-24D / Mk. V - Transport - 1943-10-20 to 1943-10-20
Squadron: 10 (BR) Sqn (RCAF)
Start Date: 1943-10-20
Completion Date: 1943-10-20
Mission: Transport
Operation: unspecified
Target City:
Target Specific:
Base: RCAF Station Gander
Take Off Time: 22:16
Squadron Code: H
Radio Code:
Return Base:
Return Time:
Crash City: Canada
Crash Specifics: Black Mountain, Quebec
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason:
Flak Battery:
Enemy Claim:
War Diary Unavailable
6 Bomber Group October 20, 1943
8 Wellingtons from 432 squadron were ordered out on a sea search. They were unsuccessful and returned to base. Richard Koval (6bombergroup.ca)
10 North Atlantic (BR) Squadron, Gander, Newfoundland. Liberator V aircraft 3701 H flying from Gander, Newfoundland to Mont Joli, Quebec was redirected to Dorval, Quebec due to poor weather conditions at Mont Joli. Nothing further was heard from the aircraft before it crashed and burned on the west side of the 2,500 foot foothill of Black Mountain, Quebec. A search at the time of the crash failed to find the crash site. The wreckage of the aircraft and remains of the 24 casualties was not located until 1946-06-20. A Memorial Cairn was erected on the Black Mountain crash site in memory of those who lost their lives there
Flight Crew: Sergeant WG MacNaughton MiD (RCAF), Flight Lieutenant JA Poirier (RCAF), Flying Officer SA Sanderson AFM (RCAF), Warrant Officer Class 2 JA Barabonoff (RCAF), Warrant Officer Class 1 J Silverstein MiD (RCAF), Pilot Officer RW MacDonald MiD (RCAF)
Passengers: Flight Lieutenant RF Fisher MiD (RCAF), Warrant Officer Class 1 W Howlett (RCAF), Warrant Officer Class 1 FE Jenkins (RCAF), Cpl HD Beattie (RCAF), Cpl RD Marr (RCAF), Cpl HK Hambly (RCAF), Cpl AC Johnston (RCAF), Pilot Officer J Lamont MiD (RCAF), Leading Aircraftman CL Dynes (RCAF), Leading Aircraftman GR Patterson (RCAF), Leading Aircraftman AJ Radcliffe (RCAF), Leading Aircraftman EW Read (RCAF)(USA), Sergeant FH Elliott (RCAF)(USA), Sergeant EM Finn (RCAF), Leading Aircraftman JAJP Veilleux (RCAF), FS RF Ware (RCAF), Sergeant SA Wood (RCAF) and Flying Officer JS Johnston MiD (RCAF) were all killed in this flying accident
All were buried at the crash site where the cairn stands in their honour until 1985, when the crews remains were exhumed and moved to a cemetery St. Donat, Quebec due to vandalism at the crash site. Detail provided by C Lambert
The Liberator in Royal Air Force and Commonwealth Service by James D Oughton page 263 19/20.1943. No.10 RCAF Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron B-24...
Liberator RCAF 3701 [Royal Air Force Aircraft Serial and Image]...