Moodie, Peter David Sim
Killed in Flying Accident 1943-03-23
Birth Date: 1922
Born:
Son of David H. Moodie and Caroline Moodie, of Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex, England.
Home: Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex, England
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RAFVR
Unit
34 SFTS- Service Flying Training School (RAF)
Base
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Rank
Leading Aircraftman
Position
Leading Aircraftman
Service Numbers
1578070
First Burial
Hillside Cemetery, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Leading Aircraftman CT Cooper (RAFVR), Leading Aircraftman D.G. Degryse, Leading Aircraftman A.T. Kidd and Pilot Officer A.W.J. Grellis were killed in this crash. According to CWGC Leading Aircraftman P.D.S. Moodie died of his injuries the following day.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
www.findagrave.com
Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)This incident involved multiple aircraft:
- Anson Mk. II Serial: 8262
All the above aircraft in the above list are referenced in this report.
Anson 8262
Avro Anson
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
The Museum's Anson Mk. V was built by MacDonald Brothers in Winnipeg in 1944. It flew with No. 7 Photographic Wing and No. 414 Squadron in Ottawa on photo survey work until the late 1940s. In 1956, it was purchased by INCO and used for mineral surveying until 1980, when it was donated to the Museum. The exterior is painted in the yellow colour common to all BCATP trainers and is in its same wartime RCAF markings.
The Avro Anson was known by a number of nicknames including "Faithful Annie" or "Flying Greenhouse". It was the first aircraft to be flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force to have a retractable undercarriage, which was a comparative novelty in 1936. In 1940, a Canadian government owned company, Federal Aircraft Limited, was created in Montreal to manufacture the Anson for Canadian use. Nearly 3,000 Anson aircraft were produced and, in the early days of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), the Anson was the standard trainer for many pilots, observers (navigators), wireless operators and bomb aimers. More than 20,000 aircrew received training on the Anson. In Canadian service, the aircraft was substantially re-designed with the substitution of North American engines and many other airframe and equipment changes.Harold Skaarup web pages
Harold A Skaarup Web Page 
Avro Anson History34 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.
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 BCATPAnson 8262
Anson Mk. II 8262
Delivered to stored reserve. Issued from storage to No. 4 Training Command on 25 June 1942. With No. 34 Service Flying Training School at Medicine Hat, Alberta when it crashed on 23 May 1943. Aircraft had made a precautionary landing due to fumes in the cockpit, then taken off at 15:10 and was low flying over the town of Rose Lynn, Alberta (about 100 miles north-north-east of Medicine Hat) when it struck a building, damaging elevators. Destroyed by post impact fire, 4 fatalities.1942-04-29 Taken on Strength No. 1 Training Command 2019-08-20
1943-March-23 Accident: 34 Service Flying Training School Loc: Rose Lynn Names: Cooper | Degryse | Grellis | Kidd | Moodie
1943-05-27 Struck off Strength Written off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20