Red Deer Cemetery
"No. 1397797 Leading Aircraftman Young, D.B. and No. 1320346 Leading Aircraftman Stuart, P.J. in Oxford aircraft No. T.1181 crashed 1 mile south of Rowley, Alta. Both occupants were killed and aircraft was totally wracked. An investigation is being held."
Young, Donald Barclay (Leading Aircraftman)
Killed in Flying Accident 1943-June-13
Birth Date: 1925
Born:
Parents: Son of Florence Ada Young, of Worthing, Sussex, England.
Spouse:
Home:
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RAFVR
Unit
36 SFTS- Service Flying Training School (RAF)
Base
Penhold, Alberta, Canada
Rank
Leading Aircraftman
Position
Service Numbers
1397797
School Daily Diary Entry - 1943-06-13
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Finadagrave.comCrew or Other Personnel
Oxford T1181
Accident Card - Airspeed Oxford serial:T1181
This accident involved 1 aircraft on 1943-June-13. Oxford II s/n T1181.
This accident involved 2 people. Stuart PJ, Young DB
This accident had 2 fatalities. Leading Aircraftman Donald Barclay Young RAFVR Killed in Flying Accident service no:1397797 Oxford T1181, Leading Aircraftman Peter John Stuart RAFVR Killed in Flying Accident service no:1320346 Oxford T1181
Unit Desciption
36 SFTS (36 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.
Airspeed Oxford Crash SFTS36
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