Birth Date: 1923-June-12
Born:
Percy Vincent & Emma Mary Clark, of Lincoln, England.
Home:
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RAFVR
Unit
2 FIS- Flying Instructor School
Base
Vulcan, Alberta, Canada
Rank
Sergeant
Position
Sergeant
Service Numbers
1218320
Took off from 2FIS at Vulcan Alberta on a training flight
Pilot Clark was accompanied by pilot Sergeant Edward James Harris RCAF R/128563.
During the flight the aircraft hit a tree on a low-flying exercise between Vulcan and Pincher Creek Alberta, and crashed. Both occupants of the aircraft were killed.
Killed includes Clark: Sergeant Edward James Harris RCAF R/128563 pilot KIA Maple Ridge Cemetery Haney, Alberta Block 18. Lot 1. Grave 5.
In early 1942, an agreement was signed between the Canadian Government and Fairchild Aircraft, which licenced Fleet Aircraft of Fort Erie, Ontario to construct the PT-26 Cornell in Canada. The first 800 Cornells used by the RCAF were supplied from Fairchild, until production commenced at Fort Erie in November 1942. By the end of the war in 1945, 2,853 Cornells had been built by Fleet - 1,565 for the RCAF and 1,288 for the RAF.
PT-26 Cornells were flown at many of the Elementary Flying Training Schools (EFTS) of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, where they replaced the Fleet Finch and the de Havilland Tiger Moth biplane trainers. After the Second World War, many Cornells were sold to the civilian market, but some were retained by the RCAF, where they were finally retired in 1948. CWPHM
Became inactive on 29 December 1944 disbanded on 20 January 1945
Project 44 BCATP
Vulcan Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
www.findagrave.com
Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)
Cornell Trainer
Wikipedia Cornell Trainer
Harold A Skaarup Web Page
RCAF.info - RCAF Station Claresholm AB