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CASPIR contains documents, images and history of Canada's military aviation. The personnel and aircraft data has been compiled using data provided by trusted Canadian military aviation historians and original source documents. Where possible source documents are linked.
Research

CASPIR Resources

RCAF Accident Cards (1939-1945) JA Griffin Documents 1968 and 2005 Obtaining a World War II Service File

External Resources

RCAF.info: Research Resources RCAF.info: Finding Your Family Records

Griffin Library, 17 Wing Winnipeg

John Griffin was a significant historian, documenting Canada's Military aircraft.
Aircraft

Military Aircraft Associated with Canadians Choose a Specific Aircraft Serial

Lancaster FM213

CWHM flies one of the two airworthy Lancasters in the world. FM213 is usually marked as KB726 honouring Andrew Mynarski, VC.
Personnel

Name or Home Town Search Unit (Squadron) Search Aircraft Type or Serial Search Browse by Letter This Day in History

War Status Search Catastrophic Losses (Ships Hotels Aircraft) Choose Specific Military Cemeteries (WW1 WW2 and Beyond)

Andrew Mynarski, VC

We Shall Remember Them.
History

Education & History
Start Here Glossary Canada and World War II Combatants & First Airmen Casualties Air Force Operations Battle of Britain Women in War War Artists Canada in Korean Air War 1950-1953

Blogs & Articles
CASPIR Overview First World War Neighbourhood - Dufferin & Dupont Canada's First Military Aeroplane 1917

"A" Able flying through the Eiffel Tower? (although this event likely happened, this photograph is likely fake.) It is signed by the late Bill Bryant RAF who was the navigator of that aircraft piloted by Bob Boorman RCAF. The caption reads "This Stars Stripes photograph was taken on 14 September 1944 and shows a Mosquito Mk XIII of 409 Squadron RCAF. Pilot - W/O Bob Boorman RCAF Navigator F/S Bill Bryant RAF Flying through the Eiffel Tower."
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Bugden, Arthur Wilbert Chesley (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Action 1944-May-22

Pilot Officer Arthur Wilbert Chesley Bugden RAF

Birth Date: 1915

Born:

Parents: Son of Gilbert and Elizabeth A. Bugden, and stepson of Emily Bugden, of Trinity Bay, Newfoundland; husband of Phyllis Bugden, of Trinity Bay.

Spouse: Husband of Phyllis Bugden, of Trinity Bay.

Home: Trinity Bay, Newfoundland

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RAF

Unit

57 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Corpus Non Animum Muto I change my body, not my spirit

Base

RAF East Kirkby

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Flight Engineer

Service Numbers

188996

Home

Google Map

Trinity Bay, Newfoundland

Final Burial

Google Map

Assens Commonwealth War Graves
Special Memorial

57 Squadron (Corpus Non Animum Mute). Lancaster aircraft missing. Cenotaph at English Harbour United Church Cemetery, English Harbour, Bonavista-Trinity Census Division, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave Finadagrave.com

Crew or Other Personnel

Lancaster ND960

Pilot Officer Arthur Wilbert Chesley Bugden RAF

Pilot Officer Bugden, Arthur Wilbert Chesley (RAF)
Flight Engineer
Killed in Action
1944-May-22
Commonwealth War Graves Assens Denmark

Flying Officer George Ferguson RAF

Flying Officer Ferguson, George (RAF)
Bomb Aimer
Killed in Action
1944-May-22
Commonwealth War Graves Assens Denmark

Flying Officer William Thomas Woodall RCAF

Flying Officer Woodall, William Thomas (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1944-May-22
Commonwealth War Graves Assens Denmark