Crump, Owen Charles Bellamy (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Flying Accident 1941-December-17

Male Head

Birth Date: 1921

Born:

Charles Thomas Crump & Eva Mary Crump

Home: Windsor, Ontario (parents)

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

2 AOS- Air Observer School (RAF)

Base

RAF Millom

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Pilot Officer

Service Numbers

J/8132

Home
Google MapWindsor, Ontario (parents)
Final Burial
Google MapRippleside Cemetery
Sec E Grave 539

Aircraft crashed on take-off when it went out of control and crashed into the sea off Millom.

A fisherman came on the scene and rescued one of the occupants(Pilot Officer Crump) who sadly died later that day. while three other occupants were killed. According to some witnesses, the aircraft was on fire before it crashed.

Killed includes Crump: Sergeant William Johnston Peggie RCAF R/60617 pilot KIFA Abbotshall Parish Churchyard, Grave 98 North. Pilot Officer William Marcus Pepper RCAF J/8618 KIFA St. Luke Churchyard, Haverigg, Grave 429. Sergeant Arthur Gibbons RAF KIFA St. John Church Crosscanonby, Grave 143.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Anson serial: N9842

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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