Chappell was a staff pilot-instructor at #5 BGS, Dafoe Sask.

While returning from an exercise in Bolingbroke IV.T 10000 the aircraft crashed 4 miles NE of the village of Quill Lake, about 30 miles NE of the base at Dafoe, Saskatchewan.

All four crew were killed instantly, but owing to the snowed in roads it was impossible to reach the wreckage until late in the afternoon.

Killed includes Chappell: Corp James Alexander Meneilly RCAF R/62202 KIFA Biggar Memorial Gardens Biggar Sask Lot 24. Block 18. LAC William Raymond Moisley RNZAF KIFA St. Augustine Cemetery Dafoe Sask. Lot 82. Div. 1. Grave 1. Sergeant Terry John Sugrue RNZAF KIFA Municipal Cemetery Humboldt Sask Soldiers' Plot. Row 2. Grave 8.

addendum 1: CHAPPELL, R C Please refer to page 859 & 860 and note the following. Sergeant R C Chappell, Leading Aircraftman W R Moisley, and Sergeant T J Sugrue all refer to J A McNeilly. It should read J A Meneilly.

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