Coventry, Robert George (Flight Lieutenant)

Killed in Flying Accident 1940-September-23

Male Head

Birth Date: 1910

Born:

The Hon. Thomas George Coventry & Alice Coventry

Home: Victoria, British Columbia (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RAF

Unit

17 OTU- Operational Training Unit (RAF)

Base

RAF Upwood

Rank

Flight Lieutenant

Position

Flight Lieutenant

Service Numbers

33023

Home
Google MapVictoria, British Columbia (parents)
Final Burial
Google MapDown
North of church grave 103

Took off from Upwood on a live bombing exercise over Cardigan Bay, Wales.

Aircraft crash landed near Tuffley on the southern outskirts of Gloucester, England at approx. 14:30 due to engine problems. Coventry managed to steer the plummeting bomber away from a busy school in Quedgeley, near Gloucester, before it crashed in a field.

Killed; F/Lt Robert George Coventry RAF (Canadian) pilot KIFA St Mary and Corpus Christi Church , Down Hatherley, North of church, grave 103.

Injured: Sergeants J S Lane and G Wilcox, both RAF, were injured in the crash but recovered.

Sergeant J Lane (RAF) and Sergeant G Wilson (RAF) were injured

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Blenheim serial: L8797

(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3602838)
Bristol 142M Blenheim Mk.V, RAF (Serial No. DJ702).

The Bristol Blenheim is a British light bomber aircraft designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company (Bristol) which was used extensively in the first two years and in some cases throughout the Second World War. The aircraft was developed as Type 142, a civil airliner, in response to a challenge from Lord Rothermere to produce the fastest commercial aircraft in Europe. The Type 142 first flew in April 1935, and the Air Ministry, impressed by its performance, ordered a modified design as the Type 142M for the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a bomber. Deliveries of the newly named Blenheim to RAF squadrons commenced on 10 March 1937. Wikipedia

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Wikipedia Bristol Blenheim

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