Markham, Eric Thomas (Leading Aircraftman)

Killed in Flying Accident 1942-January-22

Male Head

Birth Date: 1918

Born:

Parents: Son of Alfred John and Annie Elizabeth Markham, of Stow-Heath, Wolverhampton, England.

Spouse:

Home:

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RAF

Unit

34 SFTS- Service Flying Training School (RAF)

Base

Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Rank

Leading Aircraftman

Position

Service Numbers

657257

Final Burial

Hillside Cemetery
Lot 10 Block 139D Sec C

Harvard aircraft AJ 761 swung on take-off and hit Pilot Officer Hoar's Harvard aircraft AJ 828 on the aerodrome at Medicine Hat. Leading Aircraftman ET Markham (RAF) and Pilot Officer J.G. Hoar were killed in aircraft AJ 828. There were no casualties in aircraft AJ 761.

Canada Primary Source School Daily Diary Entry - 1942-01-22

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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Crew or Other Personnel

Harvard AJ828

Pilot Officer John Green Hoar RCAF

Pilot Officer Hoar, John Green (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1942-January-22
Edmonton Cemetery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Leading Aircraftman Eric Thomas Markham RAF

Leading Aircraftman Markham, Eric Thomas (RAF)

Killed in Flying Accident
1942-January-22
Hillside Cemetery, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Unit Desciption

34 SFTS (34 Service Flying Training School)

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.