31 GRS- General Reconnaissance School (RAF)

The General Reconnaissance School trained pilots and air observers in the techniques required for ocean patrol. It was the equivalent to an Operational Training Unit (OTU), and last stop before aircrew were assigned to operations. The topics included DR Navigation, Astro Navigation, Compasses and Instruments, Meteorology, Signals, Reconnaissance, Coding, Ship Recognition, Aerial Photography, and Visual Signals.
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Unit Accident Records: 31 GRS 31 General Reconnaisance School RAF (66)

1941-February-19 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Saint-Hubert Quebec Names: Over
1941-February-22 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Charlottetown Airport Names: Coverntry
1941-April-04 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Charlottetown Airport Names: Harrison | Jobling | Long | Teggart
1941-April-07 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Charlottetown Pei Names: Almquist | Bessey | Dyer | Wallace
1941-April-24 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Chatham New Brunswick Names: Cameron | Danton | Majeau | Pearson | Taggart
1941-April-29 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Charlottetown Names: Calderhead | Paisley | Robinson | Smith
1941-May-19 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Charlottetown Names: Aries
1941-May-31 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: New Glasgow Aerodrome Names: Daubner | Gosnell | Shirtliff | Welch
1941-July-03 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Quick | Simpson | Walshe | Welch
1941-September-21 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Gates | Pearson | Ward
1941-October-27 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Caldwell | Hobgen | Hornbrooke | Ward
1941-November-04 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Oak Bay Names: Bunting | Corry | Haslem | Simpson
1941-November-06 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Conway North Summerside Names: Leeson | Posner | Sherwin
1941-November-19 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Fletcher | Goody | Petter
1941-November-19 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Fletcher | Goody | Petter
1941-November-20 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Names: Clench | Ficken | Freeman | Thomas
1941-December-10 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Baxter | Blythe | Crosbie | Orr
1942-January-04 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Charlottetown Names: Fee | Holt | Horton | Howie
1942-January-11 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Richibucto New Brunswick Names: Fear | Johns | Senior | Sumpter
1942-January-12 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Charlottetown Names: Agar | Beaumont | Calderhead | Compton | Ellis | Rofe | Taylor
1942-January-12 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Charlottetown Names: Agar | Beaumont | Calderhead | Compton | Ellis | Rofe | Taylor
1942-January-22 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Charlottetown Aerodrome Names: Ashburner | Dow | Martin | Young
1942-February-24 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Tignish Pei Names: MacCafferty | Renault | Wingeatt | Woods
1942-October-16 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Names: Cobbledick | Mathews | Saunders | Shaw
1942-November-07 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Charlottetown Names: Bowen
1942-November-17 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Gulf Of St Lawrence Names: Jones | Lintott | McConnell | Roy
1942-November-17 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Charlottetown Airport Names: Brown | Courtney | Dodd | Nagley
1942-December-21 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Charlottetown Names: Carter | Clark | Kingdon | Nicholson | Thomas | Williams
1943-January-09 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Charlottetown Names: Barichello | Cameron | Lewis | Thomassen
1943-January-09 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Charlottetown Names: Armitage | Becket | Campanella | Meredith | White
1943-January-09 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Charlottetown Names: Armitage | Becket | Campanella | Meredith | White
1943-January-17 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Portage Du Cap Amherst Island Magdalen Islands Names: Ashton | Edmunds | Ritchie | Topley
1943-January-27 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bultitude | Edwards | Priddle | Wickens
1943-January-27 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Garfield Pei Names: Baughman | Bieley | Esau | Thomas
1943-February-03 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: McLeod | Montgomery | Moore | Patterson | Rodda | Trotter | Watson | Way
1943-February-03 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: McLeod | Montgomery | Moore | Patterson | Rodda | Trotter | Watson | Way
1943-February-03 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Gilbert
1943-February-23 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Breeze | Edgar | Gazzard | Smart
1943-February-23 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Breeze | Edgar | Gazzard | Smart
1943-February-23 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Souris Pei Names: Grime | Huntley | Kershaw | Robinson
1943-March-24 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Charlottetown Airport Names: Leeson | White | Wood
1943-April-08 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Cape Breton Island Names: May | Simmonds | Webb | Wright
1943-April-16 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: EPoint Pei Names: Beer | Kilgour | Meenie | Nash
1943-April-18 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Capetryon Pei Names: Bell | Hamment | Wilkes | Wise
1943-May-10 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Charlottetown Airport Names: Barratt | Barton | Henley | Roberts
1943-May-10 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Charlottetown Airport Names: Barratt | Barton | Henley | Roberts
1943-May-10 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Charlottetown Airport Names: Barratt | Barton | Henley | Roberts
1943-May-17 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Havre Aubert Magdalen Is Names: Bolton | Burke | Fairfield | Potts
1943-May-22 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Harper
1943-May-22 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Harper
1943-June-01 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Baldwin | Botham | Lamb | Mcgrath
1943-June-23 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: South Alberton Pei Names: Douglas | Dowton | Edmonds | Mckellar
1943-June-30 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Armstrong | Holmes | Lowe | Yaffe
1943-July-15 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Charlottetown Pei Names: Buszard | Hambling
1943-July-16 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Botham | Livesey | Mann | Thomas
1943-July-16 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Botham | Livesey | Mann | Thomas
1943-July-23 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bentley | Bowling | Horton | Murphy
1943-July-26 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Coton | Jones | Sykes | Willie
1943-August-25 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Beaumont | Blair | Hackett | Hughes
1943-September-06 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: 140 Miscou Light Names: Hooper | Humphrey | Jackson | Monaghan
1943-September-21 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Hoy | Lowe | Webb
1943-October-04 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Ball | Evans | Garner | Young
1943-October-09 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Coleman | Leach | Longley | Sykes
1943-December-19 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Moore | Reynolds
1943-December-19 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Breeze | Macintyre
1944-January-09 Accident: 31 General Reconnaissance School Loc: Keppock Names: Betmour | McConnell | Tough | Wadwell

Unit Casualtues: 31 GRS 31 General Reconnaisance School RAF (20)

Norman William Thomas
1941-November-20
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I N4894
Alfred John Freeman
1941-November-20
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I N4894
Norman James Ficken
1941-November-20
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I N4894
Stanley Vincent Clench
1941-November-20
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I N4894
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England
Philip Compton
1942-January-12
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I N5358
Charlottetown, PEI (parents)
Bernard John Rofe
1942-January-12
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I N5358
Kenneth Ellis
1942-January-12
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I N5358
George Douglas Calderhead
1942-January-12
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6279
Ernest Lockey John Beaumont
1942-January-12
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6279
Joseph Fitzgerald Agar
1942-January-12
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6279
Peter Stanley Wright
1943-April-08
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. l W1754
Frank Archer Webb
1943-April-08
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. l W1754
Howard Rolleston Simmonds
1943-April-08
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. l W1754
Jack Raymond May
1943-April-08
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. l W1754
Honor Oak, London, England
Robert Wilkes
1943-April-18
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I R9599
Clifford John Hamment
1943-April-18
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I R9599
Kenneth Kirby Bell
1943-April-18
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I R9599