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Service
FF
Unit
34 SFTS- Service Flying Training School (RAF)
Base
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Rank
Corporal
Position
Pilot
Service Numbers
30602
Hillside Cemetery, Medicine Hat, Alberta Canada
Died in the crash of Oxford - AS831. The crash occured 2 miles south of the Holden relief landing field.
Corporal Leprou was initially buried in the Hillside Cemetrey, Medicine Hat, Alberta, His body was returned to his family and as reburied at Montreuil sous bois in France.
School Daily Diary Entry - 1942-05-31
This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1942-May-31. Oxford s/n AS831.
This accident involved 1 person. Leprou R
This accident had 1 fatality. Corporal Rene Leprou FF Killed in Flying Accident service no:30602 Oxford AS831
Graduates of the EFTS "learn-to-fly" program went on a Service Flying Training School (SFTS) for 16 weeks. For the first 8 weeks the trainee was part of an intermediate training squadron; for the next 6 weeks an advanced training squadron and for the final 2 weeks training was conducted at a Bombing & Gunnery School. The Service schools were military establishments run by the RCAF or the RAF.
There were two different types of Service Flying Training Schools. Trainees in the fighter pilot stream went to an SFTS like No. 14 Aylmer, where they trained in the North American Harvard or North American Yale. Trainees in the bomber, coastal or transport pilot stream went to an SFTS like No. 5 Brantford where they learned multi-engine technique in an Airspeed Oxford, Avro Anson or Cessna Crane.
For More Information on RCAF Station Medicine Hat see here
RCAF.Info - RCAF Station Medicine Hat AB
RCAF.Info - Relief Landing Field Holsom AB
RCAF.Info - Relief Landing Field Whitla AB
Bomber Command Museum Of Canada - 34 SFTS
David Carter History Of NO34 SFTS
Project 44 BCATP
Finadagrave.com
YouTube - David Carter - History Of 34 SFTS
Project 44 BCATP