Crump, Owen Charles Bellamy
Killed in Flying Accident 1941-12-17
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
First Burial
Rippleside Cemetery, Barking, Essex, England.
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 N9842
Avro Anson
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
Harold A Skaarup Web Page 
Avro Anson History