Birth Date: 1922
Born:
Parents: Guildford & Sylvia Frances Clarke
Spouse: Joy Elizabeth Clarke, of Inglewood, Western Australia.
Home:
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RAAF
Unit
36 SFTS- Service Flying Training School (RAF)
Base
RCAF Stn. Penhold, Alberta
Rank
Leading Aircraftman
Position
Pilot trainee
Service Numbers
427869
Oxford AS-674 crashed at 12:15 during a cross-country flight. The aircraft hit hydro-electric transmission wires during a snowstorm, both occupants were killed and the aircraft destroyed.
Killed includes Clarke: Flying Officer Ronald Edward Lay RAF pilot-instructor, KIFA Red Deer Cemetery Lot 2. Block F.
This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1944-January-02. Oxford II s/n AS674.
This accident involved 2 people. Clarke MJ, Lay RE
This accident had 2 fatalities. Flying Officer Ronald Edward Lay RAFVR Killed in Flying Accident service no:128576 Oxford AS674, Leading Aircraftman Maxwell John Clarke RAAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:427869 Oxford AS674
Graduates of the EFTS "learn-to-fly" program went on a Service Flying Training School (SFTS) for 16 weeks. For the first 8 weeks the trainee was part of an intermediate training squadron; for the next 6 weeks an advanced training squadron and for the final 2 weeks training was conducted at a Bombing & Gunnery School. The Service schools were military establishments run by the RCAF or the RAF.
There were two different types of Service Flying Training Schools. Trainees in the fighter pilot stream went to an SFTS like No. 14 Aylmer, where they trained in the North American Harvard or North American Yale. Trainees in the bomber, coastal or transport pilot stream went to an SFTS like No. 5 Brantford where they learned multi-engine technique in an Airspeed Oxford, Avro Anson or Cessna Crane.
For Information on RCAF Station Penhold see here
RCAF.Info - RCAF Station Penhold AB
RCAF.Info - Relief Landing Field Innisfail AB
RCAF.Info - Relief Landing Field Blackfalds AB
Harvard Historical Aviation Society
Midland Aircraft Recovery Group - Men Of 36 SFTS
Bomber Command Museum Of Canada - 36 SFTS
Red Deer Cemetery
School Daily Diary Entry - 1944-01-02
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Finadagrave.com
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