Mount Hope Cemetery
Pilot Officer Pritchard and Leading Aircraftman W.C. Lockhart (RAF) were on an instructional flight when the port wing of Cornell aircraft 10863 broke away away during flight. They were killed when the aircraft crashed two and one half miles south-west of Assiniboia.
Lockhart, William Crawford (Leading Aircraftman)
Killed in Flying Accident 1944-January-19
Birth Date: 1924
Born:
Parents: Son of William Anderson Lockhart and Margaret Fraser Crawford Lockhart, of Glasgow, Scotland.
Spouse:
Home:
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RAFVR
Unit
34 EFTS- Elementary Flying Training School (RAF)
Base
Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, Canada
Rank
Leading Aircraftman
Position
Service Numbers
1698172
School Daily Diary Entry - 1944-01-19
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Finadagrave.comCrew or Other Personnel
Cornell 10863
Unit Desciption
34 EFTS (34 Elementary Flying Training School)
An Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) gave a trainee 50 hours of basic flying instruction on a simple trainer like the De Havilland Tiger Moth, Fleet Finch, or Fairchild Cornell over 8 weeks.Elementary schools were operated by civilian flying clubs under contract to the RCAF and most of the instructors were civilians. For example, No. 12 EFTS Goderich was run by the Kitchener-Waterloo Flying Club and the County of Huron Flying Club.The next step for a pilot was the Service Flying Training School.
NO34 EFTS Assiniboia
For More Information on RCAF Station Assiniboa see here
RCAF.info - Station Assiniboa Saskatchewan
RCAF.info - Relief Landing Field Lethburn Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Virtual War Memorial
Vintage Wings - Ghosts Of Saskatchewan
YouTube - Abandoned Saskatchewan
Project 44 BCATP