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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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Rey, Francis Lawrence (Pilot Officer)

Killed in Action 1944-June-25

Pilot Officer Francis Lawrence Rey RCAF

Birth Date: 1924-August-03

Born:

Parents: Son of Alexis Xavier and Elizabeth Mary Rey

Spouse:

Home: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

9 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Per Noctem Volamus Through out the night we fly

Base

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Air Gunner

Service Numbers

J/89892
Prev: R/192969

Home

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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Target

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Prouville France

Final Burial

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Rougefay Communal Cemetery
Plot 8 Row B Grave 16

9 Squadron (Per Noctern Volamus). Lancaster aircraft LL 970 went down north-east of Abbeville near Rougefay, France during a night operation against Prouville, France. Pilot Officer FL Rey also killed. One Canadian, Sergeant Grant, was either an Evader or was taken Prisoner of War and four of the crew, not Canadians, missing believed killed.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Find-A-Grave Finadagrave.com

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Crew or Other Personnel

Lancaster LL970

Sergeant Lawrence Albert Dolby RAFVR

Sergeant Dolby, Lawrence Albert (RAFVR)
Flight Engineer
Killed in Action
1944-June-25
St Omer Souvenir Cemetery, Longuenesse, Pas-De-Calais, France

Sergeant Douglas Raymond Grant RCAF

Sergeant Grant, Douglas Raymond (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Evader
1944-June-25
cemetery unknown

Sergeant John Elias Jones RAFVR

Sergeant Jones, John Elias (RAFVR)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1944-June-25
Auxi-Le-Chateau New Communal Cemetery, France

Flight Sergeant Arthur Jack Lewis RAFVR

Flight Sergeant Lewis, Arthur Jack (RAFVR)
Bomb Aimer
Killed in Action
1944-June-25
St Omer Souvenir Cemetery, Longuenesse, Pas-De-Calais, France

Pilot Officer Harold Oliver Rae RCAF

Pilot Officer Rae, Harold Oliver (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1944-June-25
Communal Cemetery, Rougefay, France

Pilot Officer Francis Lawrence Rey RCAF

Pilot Officer Rey, Francis Lawrence (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1944-June-25
Rougefay Communal Cemetery, France

Sergeant William Hubert Wells RAFVR

Sergeant Wells, William Hubert (RAFVR)
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1944-June-25
St Omer Souvenir Cemetery, Longuenesse, Pas-De-Calais, France