Clark, Donald Tom (Leading Aircraftman)

Killed in Flying Accident 1941-August-21

Male Head

Birth Date: 1921

Born:

Thomas & Annie Clark

Home: Vancouver, British Columbia

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RAF

Unit

9 AOS- Air Observer School (RAF)

Base

Rank

Leading Aircraftman

Position

Leading Aircraftman

Service Numbers

1022814

Home
Google MapVancouver, British Columbia
Final Burial
Google MapRutherglen Cemetery
Sec S Grave 79

1941-08-21: 9 Air Observers School Anson Mk I N-9877 crashed into the sea out of the clouds off Morffa Nefyn, Caernarvonshire, Wales while on a training flight .

Killed includes Clark: LAC Clifford Frederick Chapman RAF KIFA Pwllheli Borough Cemetery Sec. B. Row E. Grave 23. Sergeant Rupert Henry Grattan-Doyle RAF pilot KIA Pwllheli Borough Cemetery Sec. B. Row F. Grave 22. AC2 Arthur William Mills RAF KIA All Saints Churchyard Hordle South of church. AC2 Harry Whitaker RAF KIA Runnymede Memorial Panel 59.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Anson serial: N9877

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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