Hambly, Howard Kenneth (Corporal)
Killed in Flying Accident 1943-October-20
Birth Date: 1919-June-16
Born: Woodstock, Oxford County Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Parents: Son of Howard Norman Hambly and Janet (nee Harvey) Hambly, of Woodstock. Ontario
Spouse:
Home: Woodstock, Ontario
Enlistment: London, Ontario
Enlistment Date: 1940-October-30
Service
RCAF
Unit
10 (B) Sqn- Squadron
Base
RCAF Stn. Gander, Newfoundland
Rank
Corporal
Position
Aero Engine Mechanic
Service Numbers
R/78656
Home
Woodstock, Ontario
Temporary Burial
crash site on Black Mountain, Quebec
Remains were later exhumed from this location and reburied
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Liberator 3701
Accident Card - Consolidated Liberator B-24D / Mk. V serial:3701
This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1943-October-20. Liberator V s/n 3701.
This accident involved 24 people. MacDonald RW, Sanderson SA, Poirier JAR, Lamont J, Johnson JS, Jenkins FE, Barabanoff JA, Fisher RF, Howlett W, Ware RF, Mcnaughton WG, Finn EM, Silverstein J, Read EW, Veilleux JAJP, Dynes CL, Hambly HK, Johnston AC, Marr RD, Patterson GR, Radcliffe AJ, Elliott FH, Wood SA, Beattie HD
This accident had 24 fatalities. Sergeant Eric Morgan Finn RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/72026 Liberator 3701, Sergeant Stanley Albert Wood RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/51027 Liberator 3701, Leading Aircraftman Joseph Achille Jean Paul Veilleux RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/177329 Liberator 3701, Flight Lieutenant Robert Frank Fisher RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/5821 Liberator 3701, Leading Aircraftman Edwin William Read RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/150207 Liberator 3701, Sergeant William Gordon MacNaughton RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/7526 Liberator 3701, Corporal Howard Kenneth Hambly RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/78656 Liberator 3701, Pilot Officer Robert William MacDonald RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/37357 Liberator 3701, Leading Aircraftman Albert James Radcliffe RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/177668 Liberator 3701, Corporal Ronald Douglas Marr RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/99167 Liberator 3701, Warrant Officer 2 Joseph Alexander Barabonoff RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/129211 Liberator 3701, Flight Lieutenant Joseph Alfred Raymond Poirier RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/9147 Liberator 3701, Corporal Harold David Beattie RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/84899 Liberator 3701, Warrant Officer 1 Franklin Elwood Jenkins RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/72936 Liberator 3701, Flying Officer Jay Syver Johnston RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/7987 Liberator 3701, Flt. Sergeant Raymond Frank Ware RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:4074 Liberator 3701, Corporal Alec Clarence Johnston RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/64066 Liberator 3701, Leading Aircraftman Charles Laurie Dynes RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/173349 Liberator 3701, Warrant Officer 1 Jacob Silverstein RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/67673 Liberator 3701, Leading Aircraftman Guy Ridgewood Patterson RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/207868 Liberator 3701, Flying Officer Stephen Andrew Sanderson RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/21297 Liberator 3701, Warrant Officer 1 Wilfred Howlett RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/113408 Liberator 3701, Sergeant Franklin Hicks Elliott RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:R/74645 Liberator 3701, Pilot Officer James Lamont RCAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:J/39103 Liberator 3701
Mission
Liberator B-24D / Mk. V 3701
Transport 1943-October-20 to 1943-October-20
10 (BR) Sqn (RCAF) RCAF Station Gander
10 North Atlantic (BR) Squadron, Gander, Newfoundland. Liberator V aircraft 3701 H flying from Gander, Newfoundland to Mont Joli, Quebec was redirected to Dorval, Quebec due to poor weather conditions at Mont Joli. Nothing further was heard from the aircraft before it crashed and burned on the west side of the 2,500 foot foothill of Black Mountain, Quebec. A search at the time of the crash failed to find the crash site. The wreckage of the aircraft and remains of the 24 casualties was not located until 1946-06-20. A Memorial Cairn was erected on the Black Mountain crash site in memory of those who lost their lives there
Flight Crew: Sergeant WG MacNaughton MiD (RCAF), Flight Lieutenant JA Poirier (RCAF), Flying Officer SA Sanderson AFM (RCAF), Warrant Officer Class 2 JA Barabonoff (RCAF), Warrant Officer Class 1 J Silverstein MiD (RCAF), Pilot Officer RW MacDonald MiD (RCAF)
Passengers: Flight Lieutenant RF Fisher MiD (RCAF), Warrant Officer Class 1 W Howlett (RCAF), Warrant Officer Class 1 FE Jenkins (RCAF), Cpl HD Beattie (RCAF), Cpl RD Marr (RCAF), Cpl HK Hambly (RCAF), Cpl AC Johnston (RCAF), Pilot Officer J Lamont MiD (RCAF), Leading Aircraftman CL Dynes (RCAF), Leading Aircraftman GR Patterson (RCAF), Leading Aircraftman AJ Radcliffe (RCAF), Leading Aircraftman EW Read (RCAF)(USA), Sergeant FH Elliott (RCAF)(USA), Sergeant EM Finn (RCAF), Leading Aircraftman JAJP Veilleux (RCAF), FS RF Ware (RCAF), Sergeant SA Wood (RCAF) and Flying Officer JS Johnston MiD (RCAF) were all killed in this flying accident
All were buried at the crash site where the cairn stands in their honour until 1985, when the crews remains were exhumed and moved to a cemetery St. Donat, Quebec due to vandalism at the crash site. Detail provided by C Lambert
The Liberator in Royal Air Force and Commonwealth Service by James D Oughton page 263
19/20.1943. No.10 RCAF Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron B-24...
Liberator RCAF 3701 [Royal Air Force Aircraft Serial and Image]...
Liberator serial: 3701
(DND Photos via James Craik) (Source Harold A Skaarup Web Page)
Consolidated Liberator G.R. Mk. VIII, RCAF (Serial No. 11130) ex-USAAF Consolidated (Vultee) B-24L Liberator USAAF (44-50154)
ex-RAF (Serial No. 5009), ex-Indian Air Force (Serial No. HE773).
Currently preserved in the Canada Aviation and Space Museum Ottawa Ontario.
Consolidated Liberator G.R. Mk. VIII, RCAF (Serial No. 11130) ex-USAAF Consolidated (Vultee) B-24L Liberator USAAF (44-50154)
ex-RAF (Serial No. 5009), ex-Indian Air Force (Serial No. HE773).
Currently preserved in the Canada Aviation and Space Museum Ottawa Ontario.
The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was an American heavy bomber flown by the RCAF during the Second Word War. It was designed with a shoulder-mounted, high aspect ratio Davis wing which gave the Liberator a high cruise speed, long range and the ability to carry a heavy bomb load. Early RAF Liberators were the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic Ocean as a matter of routine. In comparison with its contemporaries the B-24 was relatively difficult to fly and had poor low speed performance; it also had a lower ceiling compared with the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Of the roughly 18,500 B-24s built in the USA during the war, 148 were flown by the RCAF on long range anti-submarine patrols, with the B-24 serving an instrumental role in closing the Mid-Atlantic gap in the Battle of the Atlantic. The RCAF also flew a few B-24s post war as transports.
Roughly half of all (RAF) Liberator crews in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theatre were Canadian by the end of the war. John Muir of Vancouver flew the longest mission of the war: 24hrs, 10mins from Ceylon to Burma and back. (Kyle Hood) Harold Skaarup web page
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Liberator 3701
Liberator B-24D / Mk. V 3701
H {{clearfloat}} {{storedserimage,Liberator3701.jpg,float:right;width:400px;margin-left:10px;,3701 Tail RCAF photo via Mike Kaehler}}Ex USAAF B-24D-25-CO serial number 41-24236. General note on the first RCAF B-24Ds (3701 to 3704): Received second hand from USAAF, in very poor condition and without all operational equipment. Mostly used only for training and transportation by RCAF. Initially operated in USAAF camouflage. The designation Mk. V was never officially used by RCAF. These aircraft were generally known as "Brazilian Liberators", in the belief that they had come from a USAAF unit based in Brazil (not confirmed by US records).
Operated by No. 10 (BR) Squadron, RCAF Station Gander, Newfoundland. Went missing on flight from Gander to Mt. Joli, Quebec, on 19 / 20 October 1943. Aircraft was diverted to Dorval because of poor weather at Mt. Joli, wreckage not found until June 1946. 24 fatalities, including most of the crew of Liberator 595, on leave after sinking U-341 a few weeks earlier.
1943-09-29 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1943-October-20 Accident: 10 Squadron Loc: Names: Barabanoff | Beattie | Dynes | Elliott | Finn | Fisher | Hambly | Howlett | Jenkins | Johnson | Johnston | Lamont | MacDonald | Marr | Mcnaughton | Patterson | Poirier | Radcliffe | Read | Sanderson | Silverstein | Veilleux | Ware | Wood
1944-03-23 Struck off Strength Struck off, after crashing at St. Donat, near Mont Joli, PQ on night of 19 / 20 October 1943. 2019-08-20
Unit Desciption
10 (B) Sqn ()
Battle honours
The Second World War
NORTH-WEST ATLANTIC, 1940-1945.
Lineage
Authorized as ‘No.10 (Torpedo Bomber) Squadron’ 1 April 1938.Footnote1
Redesignated 'No.10 (Bomber) Squadron' 28 August 1939.Footnote2
Redesignated 'No.10 (Bomber Reconnaissance) Squadron' 1 September 1939.Footnote3
Disbanded 13 August 1945.Footnote4
Notes:
No lineal connection with '10 Experimental Squadron', of 1967-70. See 10 Experimental Squadron.
Operational history
The Second World War
The squadron flew on anti-submarine operations on the Atlantic Coast under 'Eastern Air Command'.Footnote5
Footnotes
Footnote 1
GO 48/38. Authorized but not formed (AFGO 19/39)
Footnote 2
AFGO 41/39
Footnote 3
AFGO 57/39\
Footnote 4
Secret Organization Order 279, 4 August 1945, file S.17-10-1 (DOE), Kardex 181.009 (D5432)
Footnote 5
AFGO 25/40; Statement and Organization Charts for the Home and Overseas War and BCATP Organization, 15 April 1942, file S.8202, Kardex 181.002 (D421); Memorandum, Notes for CAS, Appendix A, 12 September 1939, Document Collection 77/543
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