Campbell, Beatty Elwood
Killed in Flying Accident 1943-02-08
Birth Date: 1916-October-21
Born: Ross Township, Foresters Falls, Ontario
late William Fraser Campbell & Fannie Bilson Campbell
Home: Foresters Falls, Ontario (parents)
Enlistment: North Bay, Ontario
Enlistment Date: 1942-04-15
Service
RCAF
Unit
9 AOS- Air Observer School
Base
St Jean, Quebec, Canada
Rank
Leading Aircraftman
Position
Leading Aircraftman
Service Numbers
R/151136
First Burial
Cobden Cemetery, Cobden, Ontario, Canada
9 Air Observers School, St Jean, Quebec. Anson aircraft crashed.
Killed includes Campbell:Flight Sergeant James Robert Carl Barton RCAF R/117533 KIFA Notre Dame Des Neige Montreal Sec. M. Lot 3410 Grave 808.LAC Saul Endleman RCAF R/161704 KIFA Shaar Hashomayin Cemetery Montreal Grave 1136.
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
www.findagrave.comThis incident involved multiple aircraft:
- Anson Mk. I Serial: 6691
All the above aircraft in the above list are referenced in this report.
Anson 6691
Avro Anson
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
The Museum's Anson Mk. V was built by MacDonald Brothers in Winnipeg in 1944. It flew with No. 7 Photographic Wing and No. 414 Squadron in Ottawa on photo survey work until the late 1940s. In 1956, it was purchased by INCO and used for mineral surveying until 1980, when it was donated to the Museum. The exterior is painted in the yellow colour common to all BCATP trainers and is in its same wartime RCAF markings.
The Avro Anson was known by a number of nicknames including "Faithful Annie" or "Flying Greenhouse". It was the first aircraft to be flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force to have a retractable undercarriage, which was a comparative novelty in 1936. In 1940, a Canadian government owned company, Federal Aircraft Limited, was created in Montreal to manufacture the Anson for Canadian use. Nearly 3,000 Anson aircraft were produced and, in the early days of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), the Anson was the standard trainer for many pilots, observers (navigators), wireless operators and bomb aimers. More than 20,000 aircrew received training on the Anson. In Canadian service, the aircraft was substantially re-designed with the substitution of North American engines and many other airframe and equipment changes.Harold Skaarup web pages
Harold A Skaarup Web Page 
Avro Anson History9 AOS (9 Air Observer School)
Air Observers were later called "navigators". For recruits in this stream, the training path after ITS was 8 weeks at an Air Observer School (AOS), 1 month at a Bombing & Gunnery School, and finally 1 month at a Navigation School. The Air Observer schools were operated by civilians under contract to the RCAF. For example, Nos. 7, 8, and 9 were run by CP Airlines. However, the instructors were RCAF. The basic navigation techniques throughout the war years were dead reckoning and visual pilotage, and the tools were the aeronautical chart, magnetic compass, watch, trip log, pencil, Douglas protractor, and Dalton Navigational Computer. They trained in the Avro Anson.
RCAF.info - RCAF Station St Jean QC Anson 6691
Anson Mk. I 6691
Ex RAF W2466. To No. 3 Training Command on 24 July 1941, for use by No. 9 Air Observers School at St. Jean, Quebec.1941-06-18 Taken on Strength de Havilland Canada 2019-08-20
1942-September-15 Accident: 9 Air Observer School Loc: Chambly Names: Pelletier | Sharp | Spilsbury | Yorke
1943-February-08 Accident: 9 Air Observer School Loc: Arnprior Names: Barton | Campbell | Endleman | Handfield
1943-04-04 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce by No. 9 Repair Depot 2019-08-20