Birth Date: unkown date
Born:
Parents: William Henry and Annie Gardner of Perry Common, Birmingham, England.
Spouse:
Home:
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: unkown date
Service
RAFVR
Unit
41 SFTS- Service Flying Training School (RAF)
Base
Weyburn, Saskatchewan
Rank
Sergeant
Position
Staff Pilot
Service Numbers
1217386
Belonged to No 41 SFTS, Weyburn. Was posted there as a Staff Pilot on 18 June 1942. Drown in a boating accident on Wascana Lake in Regina, Saskatchewan on 21 May 1942. Also killed was Sergeant Eric Pulford Fairgrieve
Reported in school daily diary on 21 May 1942
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.
For More Information on RCAF Station Weyburn see here
RCAF.Info - RCAF Station Weyburn SK
RCAF.Info - Relief Landing Field Halbrite SK
RCAF.Info - Relief Landing Field Ralph SK
Saskatchewan Virtual War Memorial - Base History
Vintage Wings - Ghosts of Saskatchewan
International Bomber Command Center - 41 SFTS Publication
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
YouTube - Abandoned Saskatchewan
Project 44 BCATP