Cornell, Michael Henry (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Flying Accident 1943-May-31

Flight Sergeant Michael Henry Cornell RCAF

Birth Date: 1914-January-12

Born: London, England

Parents: Phillip Arthur Cohen & Elisabeth Kornberg (nee Nathan) Cornell of New York, New York, USA

Spouse: Margaret Frances (nee Price) Cornell, of Ventnor, New Jersey, U.S.A. Brother of Basil a

Home: Ventnor, New Jersey, USA

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

10 OAFU- Observers Advanced Flying Unit (RAF)

Base

RAF Dumfries, Scotland

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Navigator

Service Numbers

R/144951

Home
Google MapVentnor, New Jersey, USA
Final Burial
Google MapWillesden Jewish Cemetery
Sec R Row 1 Grave 4

Anson DJ-239 from 10 OAFU was in a mid-air collision with a Wellington from 18 MU.

The Anson aircraft crashed three miles east of Maryport on the Ellensborough Road, Cumberland, England. Crew of six were all fatalities.

Killed includes Cornell: Pilot Officer Alexander Iver MacRae RCAF J/16366 pilot KIA Causewayhead Cemetery Silloth Sec. R. Grave 10. Sergeant John Thomas Sutherland RAAF KIA Causewayhead Cemetery, Silloth Sec. R. Grave 8. F/Lt William John Calver RAF pilot KIA Causewayhead Cemetery, Silloth Sec. R. Grave 12. Sergeant Thomas Green RAF KIA St Ninian's Burial Ground. Braes of Enzie, Moray, Scotland Grave 134. Sergeant Geoffrey Basil Temple Wymer RAF KIA Causewayhead Cemetery, Silloth Sec. R. Grave 6.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Anson serial: DJ239

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

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YouTube Avro Anson History

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