Beaudry, Elroy Joseph Emile (Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1943-August-19

Sergeant Elroy Joseph Emile Beaudry RCAF

Birth Date: 1923-January-08

Born: Cut Knife Saskatchewan

Parents: Mandoza & Augustine Beaudry

Spouse:

Home: Cut Knife, Saskatchewan (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

464 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAAF)
Aequo Animo Equanimity

Base

RAF Methwold

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Navigator Bomb Aimer

Service Numbers

R/115650

Home
Google MapCut Knife, Saskatchewan (parents)
Final Burial
Google MapBlacon Cemetery
Sec A Grave 904

Crew were on a night navigation training exercise from their home station in Norfolk. They had taken off during the late evening of the 18th August and had flown west into Wales. At just before 22:40 the aircraft was heard flying up the Ogwen valley and was then heard to crash.

Crew: Flight Sergeant Eloi Joseph Emile Beaudry RCAF R/115650 Nav KITA Blacon Cemetery, Chester, England. Flight Sergeant Archibald Sidney Clegg RCAF R/169854 AG KITA Blacon Cemetery, Chester, England. Flying Officer Lawrence Fullerton RCAF J/21048 WOp KITA Blacon Cemetery, Chester, England. Flight Sergeant James Alexander Johnston RAAF 20044 pilot, KITA Blacon Cemetery, Chester, England.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

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

Mission

Ventura Mk. I AE688

Operational 1943-August-18 to 1943-August-19

464 () () RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk
464 Australia Squadron (Aequo Anima). Ventura aircraft AE 688 took off from RAF Sculthorpe on 18 August 1943 to carry out a night flying training exercise during which the aircraft crashed into a hillside in Wales at Llandwrog. The aircraft was considerably off course at the time but the cause of the crash was unknown. Casualties included Flt. Sgt's. E.J.E. Beaudry and A.S. Clegg (RCAF), Flying Officer L. Fullerton (RCAF), and Flt. Sgt. J.A. Johnston (RAAF).