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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

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Andrew Mynarski, VC

We Shall Remember Them.
History

Start Here Glossary Canada and World War II Combatants & First Airmen Casualties Air Force Operations Battle of Britain Women in War War Artists

"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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Skene, Robert Reginald

Killed in Flying Accident 1914-08-12

Male Head

Birth Date: unkown date

Born: Fulham, London, England

Felix James Henry Skene & Jane Elizabeth Huddleston Hossack

Home: Fulham, London, England

Enlistment: to be 2nd Lieutenant, on Probation

Enlistment Date: 1913-11-15

Service

RFC

Unit

3 Sqn- Squadron (RFC)

Base

Rank

2nd Lieutenant

Position

2nd Lieutenant

Service Numbers

11518

Home

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Fulham, London, England

First Burial

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St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Send, Surrey, England

'Robin' Skene was killed on 1914-08-12 in a flying accident when he crashed his Bleriot XI-2 (No. 260) near Dover. His Air Mechanic Robert Keith Barlow died in the same crash, near Netheravon, Wiltshire. Skene is buried in St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Surrey, England. He was one of the first members of the RFC in 1914 and on August 12 was en route to Dover and France at the start of the First World War. He and his mechanic were the first members of the Royal Flying Corps to die on active duty and among the first British casualties of the war.

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)