Hay, Douglas Archibald (Flight Sub-Lieutenant)

Died 1915-September-20

Flight Sub-Lieutenant Douglas Archibald Hay RNAS

Birth Date: 1889-September-21

Born: Woodstock, Oxford County, Ontario

Parents: Archibald Bain 'Archie' Hay & Ellen (Nellie) S Grey

Spouse: unmarried

Home: Woodstock, Oxford County, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RNAS

Unit

(RNAS)

Base

Rank

Flight Sub-Lieutenant

Position

pilot-trainee

Service Numbers

Final Burial
Google MapHollybrook Memorial
1915-07-12: RAeC cert# 1521; from the Curtiss School, Toronto, Ontario. 1915-09-20: Hay was the first Canadian fatality in the Royal Naval Air Service, on this date, in Northumberland, England. No details of the circumstances that lead to his death could be found in the public record.