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CASPIR contains documents, images and history of Canada's military aviation. The personnel and aircraft data has been compiled using data provided by trusted Canadian military aviation historians and original source documents. Where possible source documents are linked.
Research

CASPIR Resources

RCAF Accident Cards (1939-1945) JA Griffin Documents 1968 and 2005 Obtaining a World War II Service File

External Resources

RCAF.info: Research Resources RCAF.info: Finding Your Family Records

Griffin Library, 17 Wing Winnipeg

John Griffin was a significant historian, documenting Canada's Military aircraft.
Aircraft

Military Aircraft Associated with Canadians Choose a Specific Aircraft Serial

Lancaster FM213

CWHM flies one of the two airworthy Lancasters in the world. FM213 is usually marked as KB726 honouring Andrew Mynarski, VC.
Personnel

Name or Home Town Search Unit (Squadron) Search Aircraft Type or Serial Search Browse by Letter This Day in History

War Status Search Catastrophic Losses (Ships Hotels Aircraft) Choose Specific Military Cemeteries (WW1 WW2 and Beyond)

Andrew Mynarski, VC

We Shall Remember Them.
History

Education & History
Start Here Glossary Canada and World War II Combatants & First Airmen Casualties Air Force Operations Battle of Britain Women in War War Artists Canada in Korean Air War 1950-1953

Blogs & Articles
CASPIR Overview First World War Neighbourhood - Dufferin & Dupont Canada's First Military Aeroplane 1917

"A" Able flying through the Eiffel Tower? (although this event likely happened, this photograph is likely fake.) It is signed by the late Bill Bryant RAF who was the navigator of that aircraft piloted by Bob Boorman RCAF. The caption reads "This Stars Stripes photograph was taken on 14 September 1944 and shows a Mosquito Mk XIII of 409 Squadron RCAF. Pilot - W/O Bob Boorman RCAF Navigator F/S Bill Bryant RAF Flying through the Eiffel Tower."
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Nicholson, Colin Finlay (Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1943-March-15

Male Head

Birth Date: 1914

Born:

Parents:

Spouse:

Home: Vancouver, British Columbia

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RAF

Unit

99 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Quisque Tenax Each tenacious

Base

RAF Jessore India

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Service Numbers

1118709

Home

Google Map

Vancouver, British Columbia

Temporary Burial

Google Map

Government Cemetery at Dacca

Remains were later exhumed from this location and reburied

Final Burial

Google Map

Maynamati War Cemetry
Plot 9 Row F Grave 2

99 Squadron (Quisque Tenax). Wellington aircraft missing during operations. Four of the crew, not Canadians, missing believed killed.

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave Finadagrave.com

Crew or Other Personnel

Wellington HE112

Pilot Officer Lorne Gerald Dobson RCAF

Pilot Officer Dobson, Lorne Gerald (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1943-March-15
Maynamati War Cemetry, Sylhet Highway, Cumilla, Bangladesh

Sergeant Colin Finlay Nicholson RAF

Sergeant Nicholson, Colin Finlay (RAF)

Killed in Action
1943-March-15
Maynamati War Cemetry, Sylhet Highway, Cumilla, Bangladesh