Charnaud, Lawrence Edward (Flying Officer)

Killed in Flying Accident 1943-December-01

Flying Officer Lawrence Edward Charnaud RCAF

Birth Date: 1920-June-18

Born: Vancouver, British Columbia

Lionel H. & Katherine A. Charnaud

Home: Vancouver, British Columbia (parents)

Enlistment: Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

Enlistment Date: 1942-10-19

Service

RCAF

Unit

1693 Flight- Flight (RAF)

Base

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Flying Officer

Service Numbers

J/13728

Home
Google MapVancouver, British Columbia (parents)
Memorial Location
Google MapRunnymede Memorial Surrey
Panel 173

1693 Flight. Anson aircraft lost. Flying Officer Charnaud enlisted in 1939 as a photography instructor, he re-mustered to pilot in 1941 and was overseas a year before he lost his life.

Detailed to carry out low-level bombing practice on a target in Sinclair Bay, Scotland. After dropping a practice bomb from a height of 50 feet, the aircraft was seen to pull up to about 200 feet, and attempt to turn back onto the target. A high G stall occurred on the turn, and the aircraft crashed into the sea.

The area was searched by ASR launches and a Walrus aircraft but apart from aircraft wreckage, no survivors were found.

Killed: Flying Officer Laurence Edward Charnaud RCAF J/13728 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 173. Warrant Officer Class 2 Andrew Wilson RCAF R/128841 KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 180. Warrant Officer Class 2 Bernard John Yard RCAF R/128725 KIA Runnymede Memorial [Ref : Panel 180. Flight Sergeant David Lindsay Farndell RAAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 192.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Anson serial: MG510

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

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