Chadwick, Charles Geoffrey (Leading Aircraftman)

Killed in Flying Accident 1942-December-13

Leading Aircraftman Charles Geoffrey Chadwick RAF

Birth Date: 1922

Born:

Parents: Frank & Alice Eleanor Chadwick

Spouse:

Home: Rochdale, Lancashire, England. (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RAF

Unit

33 ANS- Air Navigation School

Base

RCAF Stn. Mount Hope (Hamilton), Ontario

Rank

Leading Aircraftman

Position

Service Numbers

1507984

Home
Google MapRochdale, Lancashire, England. (parents)
Final Burial
Google MapSaint Pauls Anglican Cemetery
RAF Plot Grave 10

Took off from Mount Hope on a night training flight. Caught in a heavy snow storm and crashed into a tree one mile south-east of Avon, Ontario. Aircrew were all killed.

Killed includes Chadwick: Sergeant Richard George Board RAF pilot KIFA St. Paul's Anglican Cemetery Mount Hope RAF Plot. Grave 9. LAC Sidney Isaac Bressloff RAF KITA (1395218) Anson RCAF 6709 Beth Jacob Jewish Cemetery Burlington Sec. E. Row 6. Grave 51A. LAC Ernest Johnson RAF KITA St. Paul's Anglican Cemetery Mount Hope RAF Plot. Grave 11.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

www.findagrave.com

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Crew or Other Personnel

Anson 6709

Sergeant Richard George Board RAF

Sergeant Board, Richard George (RAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1942-December-13
Saint Pauls Anglican Cemetery, Mount Hope, Ontario, Canada

Leading Aircraftman Sidney Isaac Bressloff RAF

Leading Aircraftman Bressloff, Sidney Isaac (RAF)

Killed in Flying Accident
1942-December-13
Beth Jacob Cemetery, Snake Road, Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Leading Aircraftman Charles Geoffrey Chadwick RAF

Leading Aircraftman Chadwick, Charles Geoffrey (RAF)

Killed in Flying Accident
1942-December-13
Saint Pauls Anglican Cemetery, Mount Hope, Ontario, Canada

Leading Aircraftman Ernest Johnson RAFVR

Leading Aircraftman Johnson, Ernest (RAFVR)

Killed in Flying Accident
1942-December-13
Saint Pauls Anglican Cemetery, Mount Hope, Ontario, Canada

Anson serial: 6709

Avro Anson Mk. V
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

unvetted Source Harold A Skaarup Web Page

YouTube Avro Anson History

YouTube Avro Anson Construction

Aircraft Images

Anson 6709

Anson Mk. I 6709

Ex RAF W2491. To No. 1 Training Command on 28 July 1941, for use by No. 16 Service Flying Training School at Hagersville, Ontario. Later with No. 33 Air Navigation School at Hamilton (Mount Hope), Ontario. Airman injured by propeller during engine starting at 16:00 on 23 June 1942, at Mount Hope aerodrome. Still with 33 ANS when it crashed 1 mile south-east of Avon, Ontario during a night training flight on 13 December 1942. Struck a tree during a heavy snow storm, 4 fatalities. To workshop reserve at No. 6 Repair Depot on 21 December 1943, scrapped by this RD.

1941-07-05 Taken on Strength de Havilland Canada 2019-08-20
1942-June-23 Accident: 33 Air Navigation School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Peters | Willets
1942-December-13 Accident: 33 Air Navigation School Loc: Avon Names: Board | Bressloff | Chadwick | Johnson
1943-02-02 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20