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CASPIR contains documents, images and history of Canada's military aviation. The personnel and aircraft data has been compiled using data provided by trusted Canadian military aviation historians and original source documents. Where possible source documents are linked.
Research

CASPIR Resources

RCAF Accident Cards (1939-1945) JA Griffin Documents 1968 and 2005 Obtaining a World War II Service File

External Resources

RCAF.info: Research Resources RCAF.info: Finding Your Family Records

Griffin Library, 17 Wing Winnipeg

John Griffin was a significant historian, documenting Canada's Military aircraft.
Aircraft

Military Aircraft Associated with Canadians Choose a Specific Aircraft Serial

Lancaster FM213

CWHM flies one of the two airworthy Lancasters in the world. FM213 is usually marked as KB726 honouring Andrew Mynarski, VC.
Personnel

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War Status Search Catastrophic Losses (Ships Hotels Aircraft) Choose Specific Military Cemeteries (WW1 WW2 and Beyond)

Andrew Mynarski, VC

We Shall Remember Them.
History

Education & History
Start Here Glossary Canada and World War II Combatants & First Airmen Casualties Air Force Operations Battle of Britain Women in War War Artists Canada in Korean Air War 1950-1953

Blogs & Articles
CASPIR Overview First World War Neighbourhood - Dufferin & Dupont Canada's First Military Aeroplane 1917

"A" Able flying through the Eiffel Tower? (although this event likely happened, this photograph is likely fake.) It is signed by the late Bill Bryant RAF who was the navigator of that aircraft piloted by Bob Boorman RCAF. The caption reads "This Stars Stripes photograph was taken on 14 September 1944 and shows a Mosquito Mk XIII of 409 Squadron RCAF. Pilot - W/O Bob Boorman RCAF Navigator F/S Bill Bryant RAF Flying through the Eiffel Tower."
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Gilmour, Wesley (Leading Aircraftman)

Killed in Flying Accident 1942-September-18

Leading Aircraftman Wesley Gilmour RCAF

Birth Date: 1911

Born:

Parents: Son of Hugh and Eliza Liddell Gilmour, of Brandon.

Spouse:

Home: Brandon, Manitoba

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

7 BGS- Bombing & Gunnery School

Base

Paulson, Manitoba, Canada

Rank

Leading Aircraftman

Position

Air Gunner

Service Numbers

R/134279

Home

Google Map

Brandon, Manitoba

Final Burial

Google Map

Brandon Cemetery
Lot 101 Block A Sec 27

Fairey Battle aircraft 1877 had a glycol leak causing the engine to fail when at an altitude of 800 feet. The aircraft went into a spin and crashed two miles south-west of the aerodrome at Paulson. Sergeant J.H. McNeill (RAF) and Leading Aircraftman F.W. Musto (RAF) were also killed.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave Finadagrave.com

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Crew or Other Personnel

Battle 1877

Leading Aircraftman Wesley Gilmour RCAF

Leading Aircraftman Gilmour, Wesley (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Flying Accident
1942-September-18
Brandon Cemetery, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

Sergeant John Howard Montgomery McNeill RAF

Sergeant McNeill, John Howard Montgomery (RAF)

Killed in Flying Accident
1942-September-18
Riverside Cemetery, Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada

Leading Aircraftman Francis William Alexander Musto RAFVR

Leading Aircraftman Musto, Francis William Alexander (RAFVR)

Killed in Flying Accident
1942-September-18
Riverside Cemetery, Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada

Accident Card - Fairey Battle Mk. I serial:1877

This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1942-September-18. Fairey Battle s/n 1877.

This accident involved 3 people. Gilmour W, Mcneill HJM, Musto FWA

This accident had 3 fatalities. Sergeant John Howard Montgomery McNeill RAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:657732 Battle 1877, Leading Aircraftman Francis William Alexander Musto RAFVR Killed in Flying Accident service no:658818 Battle 1877, Leading Aircraftman Wesley Gilmour RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/134279 Battle 1877

Unit Desciption

7 BGS (7 Bomb and Gunnery School)

The Bombing and Gunnery School (B&GS) offered instruction in the techniques of bomb aiming and aerial machine gunnery to Air Observers, Bomb Aimers, and Wireless Air Gunners. These schools required large areas to accommodate their bombing and gunnery ranges, and were often located near water. The Avro Anson, Fairey Battle, Bristol Bolingbroke, and Westland Lysander were the standard aircraft used at B&GS schools.

NO7 B&GS Paulson

Royal Canadian Air Force RCAF.Info - RCAF Station Paulson Manitoba

Unvetted Source BCATP History - 7 BGS

Museum Manitoba Historical Society - Paulson Airport

Unvetted Source Staff Pilots 7 BGS Paulson MB

Unvetted Source NO6 BGS Blog History

Project 44 BCATP

Unvetted Source Project 44 BCATP

YouTube YouTube - Valour Canada Aerodrome of Democracy