Hillside Cemetery
Harvard - FE461 crashed while conducting low flying exercises. The aircraft dove into the ground at high speed at approximately 0945 hours. The crash occurred 5 miles east of Dunmore. Both Leading Aircraftman L.E. Genower and Sergeant W.S. Stanbury were killed.
Stanbury, William Stevenson (Sergeant)
Killed in Flying Accident 1943-April-27
Birth Date: 1917
Born:
Parents: Son of William Henry and Sarah Stanbury, of Widdrington Station, Northumberland, England.
Spouse:
Home:
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RAF
Unit
34 SFTS- Service Flying Training School (RAF)
Base
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Rank
Sergeant
Position
Service Numbers
541790
School Daily Diary Entry - 1943-04-27
Commonwealth War Graves CommissionCrew or Other Personnel
Harvard FE461
Accident Card - North American Harvard Mk. IIB serial:FE461
This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1943-April-27. Harvard IIB s/n FE461.
This accident involved 2 people. Genower LE, Stanbury WS
This accident had 2 fatalities. Leading Aircraftman Leonard Edward Genower RAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:1391496 Harvard FE461, Sergeant William Stevenson Stanbury RAF Killed in Flying Accident service no:541790 Harvard FE461
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.
NO34 SFTS Baracks
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