3 BGS- Bombing & Gunnery School (RCAF)

The Bombing and Gunnery School (B&GS) offered instruction in the techniques of bomb aiming and aerial machine gunnery to Air Observers, Bomb Aimers, and Wireless Air Gunners. These schools required large areas to accommodate their bombing and gunnery ranges, and were often located near water. The Avro Anson, Fairey Battle, Bristol Bolingbroke, and Westland Lysander were the standard aircraft used at B&GS schools.
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Unit Accident Records: 3 BGS 3 Bomb and Gunnery School RCAF (138)

1941-March-28 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Finley | Goulding | Gratton
1941-March-29 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Macdonald Aerodrome Names: Finley | Goulding | Gratton
1941-April-05 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Waufle
1941-April-10 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Macdonald Manitoba Names: Brown | Burry | Porter
1941-April-14 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Parsons | Porter | Tweedie
1941-April-14 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Parsons | Porter | Tweedie
1941-April-15 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Compton
1941-April-24 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cutting | Ryan | Zone
1941-May-02 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Macdonald Airfield Names: Cross | Penny | Waufle
1941-May-08 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Macdonald Alberta Names: Guy | Hurton | Ivany
1941-May-19 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Dumont | Hands | Waller
1941-May-23 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Macdonald Aerodrome Names: Mcgregor | Small
1941-June-16 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Macdonald Manitoba Names: Newland | Richardson | Ross
1941-June-18 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Macdonald Manitoba Names: Green | Halliday | McClellan | Monnon
1941-June-23 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Macdonald Manitoba Names: Gray | Macintosh | Oneilshow
1941-June-23 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Aston | Pease
1941-June-23 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Aston | Pease
1941-June-23 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Lee | Milne | Switzer
1941-June-26 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Mason | Robinson
1941-June-26 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Manson | Robinson
1941-June-27 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Macdonald Manitoba Names: Fenner | Walker
1941-July-05 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Crabb | Murphy | Sweitzer
1941-July-24 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Ackerman | Wellington | Westphal
1941-July-29 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bryan | Hurton | McClymont
1941-August-11 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Jamison | Richardson | Thompson
1941-September-27 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Chalmere | Chittick | Hay | Kroff | Raplay | Wilkinson
1941-September-27 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Chalmere | Chittick | Hay | Kroff | Raplay | Wilkinson
1941-December-13 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Macdonald Names: Hudson | Vincent | Whalen
1942-March-07 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Kelley | Moore | Nelson | Perrot
1942-March-07 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Kelley | Moore | Nelson | Perrot
1942-April-13 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Johnston | Reinhardt
1942-June-18 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Langruth Manitoba Names: Butts | Maher | Rowley
1942-July-11 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Buzik | Moss | Off
1942-July-21 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Langruth Manitoba Names: Archibald
1942-July-21 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Robson
1942-July-27 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Paddick
1942-August-01 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bishop | Clark | Jackson
1942-August-13 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Macdonald Aerodrome Names: Kay | Nelson
1942-October-14 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Portage La Prairie Names: Gibbs | Gibbs | Goodhew | Hendricks | Labarge
1942-October-27 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bonds | Kokatailo
1942-October-29 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Macdonald Names: Hunt | Leeson | Mckay
1942-November-07 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: On Taxiing Strip Names: Cumming | Parsons
1942-November-07 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: On Taxiing Strip Names: Cumming | Parsons
1942-November-10 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: North Of Airport Names: Hurst | Jennison | Piper
1942-November-11 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Brooks | Clegg | Dennis | Labes
1942-December-27 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Runway Names: Elliott | Thomas | Thomson
1943-January-04 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Rutherford | Straker | Taylor
1943-January-07 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Macdonald Names: Stimpson | Straker | Stratford
1943-January-11 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Joynt | Mindrum
1943-January-14 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Runway Station Aerodrome Names: Anderson | Hodgson | Parsons | Rose
1943-January-14 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Runway Station Aerodrome Names: Anderson | Hodgson | Parsons | Rose
1943-January-31 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Leeson | Stenning | Taylor
1943-February-07 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Coddington | Wright
1943-February-09 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Nixon
1943-February-14 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Avent | Wood
1943-February-17 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Alksne | Collins | Nordhoff | Perehinski | Walker
1943-February-17 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Alksne | Collins | Nordoff | Perehinski | Walker
1943-February-21 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bechtel | Browning
1943-March-03 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Daymond | Porter | Wright
1943-March-12 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: 15 Mile North-West Of Main Aerodrome Names: Bernard | O'Connor | Robson
1943-March-27 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Mcdougald | Norbury | Robb
1943-April-12 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bartlett | Bazlik | Cummins
1943-April-28 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cassidy | Conley | Thomas
1943-May-03 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Epp
1943-May-07 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Derbyshire | Mindrum
1943-May-11 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: NEast Of Macdonald Names: Allison | Hamil | Howard | Loyst | Nobes
1943-May-11 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: NEast Of Macdonald Names: Allison | Hamil | Howard | Loyst | Nobes
1943-May-23 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Portage La Prairie Names: Grant | Mcgurty | Mcilroy
1943-June-06 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Hodge | Hubert | Joynt | Owen | Pearce
1943-June-10 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Henderson
1943-July-15 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Hunt | Huot | Stevenson
1943-July-16 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Virdine | Whitbey | Wright
1943-August-05 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bannon | Beanland | Cherye
1943-August-11 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: No 2 Runway Macdonald Names: Gibson | Gillies | Guthman | Harry | Macauley | Robinson
1943-August-11 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: No 2 Runway Macdonald Names: Gibson | Gillies | Guthman | Harry | Macauley | Robinson
1943-August-11 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Howting | Huber | Hutchison
1943-August-11 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cook | Copeland | Derbyshire
1943-August-17 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Crawford | Leach | Legros
1943-August-17 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Norsman | Schile
1943-August-19 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: King | McCloy
1943-August-27 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Smith | Smith | Stoy
1943-September-10 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Johnson | Olofson | Olynik
1943-September-25 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Pollock | Sheehan
1943-October-06 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Berry | Boyce | Taylor
1943-November-02 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Fitzgerald | Flegel | Smithies
1943-November-06 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Feener | Lainchbury
1943-November-06 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cathcart | Fletcher
1943-November-24 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Abey | Andrews | Slater
1943-December-04 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Stevenson | Warrall | York
1943-December-06 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Foller | Smith
1943-December-16 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Sprankley
1943-December-18 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Clarke | Drennen | Essex
1943-December-23 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Alvarez | Frost | Gale
1943-December-31 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Buchanan | Sanson
1944-January-02 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Macdonald Aerodrome Names: Cormock | Johnson | Mcnabb
1944-January-20 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Hadlow | Mooney | Muirhead
1944-January-21 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: MacDonald | Mcgill | Stoy
1944-January-22 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Coones | Davidson | Giles
1944-February-16 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Boulaine | Myers
1944-March-03 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: SEast Of #2 Runway And Taxi Strip Names: Brown | Heslop | Hole
1944-March-08 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Murphy | Young
1944-March-10 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Kidney | Pearce | Scrimshaw
1944-March-10 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Kidney | Pearce | Scrimshaw
1944-March-12 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Stirzinger | Temple
1944-April-03 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cherrington | Dompe | Gray
1944-April-06 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Brinkman | Mcdonald | Mciver | Mckeller
1944-April-09 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Brereton | Grooms | Rutter | Sutherland | Terry | Tilbury | Tinman | Webster
1944-April-09 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Brereton | Grooms | Rutter | Sutherland | Terry | Tilbury | Tinman | Webster
1944-April-17 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bassey | Bobwell | Giles
1944-April-17 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bassey | Bobwell | Giles
1944-April-25 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Boswell | Bridgeman | Brooks | Lorenz
1944-April-26 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Campbell | Martin | McCready
1944-April-27 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Black | Grey | Hyland | Robinson | Vincent
1944-May-08 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cross | Stoy
1944-May-12 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Howard | Murphy
1944-May-12 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Howard | Murphy
1944-May-13 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Harry | Hellekson | Henderson | Jackson | Merret
1944-May-19 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Borthwick | Stacy | Stinson
1944-May-21 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Melymick | Parker | Peach | Perry | Rowe | Sawyer | Wood | Wraith
1944-May-21 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Melymick | Parker | Peach | Perry | Rowe | Sawyer | Wood | Wraith
1944-May-21 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Neilson | Passmore | Rosinet | Sprankle
1944-May-30 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Batty | Mcintyre | Mckinnon | Mcknight
1944-June-08 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cockx | Murphy
1944-June-16 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Huffer | Pollock
1944-July-03 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Winnipeg Manitoba Names: Capyk | Coyle | Crosbie | Cybulske | Danielson | Evans | Hayman | Lagaarden
1944-July-03 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Winnipeg Manitoba Names: Capyk | Coyle | Crosbie | Cybulske | Danielson | Evans | Hayman | Lagaarden
1944-July-13 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Gravel | Palleck | Parfrey | Parsons
1944-July-15 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Fowler | Reedie
1944-August-18 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Blanchard | Brown | Burtonwood
1944-August-19 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Howard | Lockwood | Seagrim | Shelling | Sims
1944-August-22 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Albion | Delaney
1944-August-29 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Brerton | Scott
1944-August-29 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Harry | Hayman | Slater | Smith | Swadden | Tennant | Walker | Walker | Warner
1944-August-29 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Harry | Hayman | Slater | Smith | Swadden | Tennant | Walker | Walker | Warner
1944-September-07 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Boulaine | Stewart
1944-September-17 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cook | Robbins | Schultz | Scott
1944-September-19 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Stephen | Thomas | Williams | Wilson
1944-October-16 Accident: 3 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bell | Cathcart | Hamilton | Heyd

Unit Casualtues: 3 BGS 3 Bomb and Gunnery School RCAF (16)

Walter James George Chalcroft
1941-June-07
Died
Winnipeg, Manitoba (parents)
William Gordon Walker
1941-June-27
Killed in Flying Accident
Toronto, Ontario
Leon Fenner
1941-June-27
Killed in Flying Accident
Toronto, Ontario
Thordar Thordarson
1941-July-17
unknown
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Samuel Klein
1942-May-09
Died
Toronto, Ontario
Norman Moss
1942-July-11
Killed in Flying Accident
Charles Off
1942-July-11
Killed in Flying Accident
Weybum, Saskatchewan
Joseph Paul Buzik
1942-July-11
Killed in Flying Accident
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
William Lindsay Bernard Walsh
1942-July-19
Died
Toronto, Ontario
Charles Hubert
1943-June-06
Died
Raymond Beker
1943-December-14
Died
Windsor, Nova Scotia
Duane Francis Lockwood
1944-August-19
Killed in Flying Accident
Pinkham, Saskatchewan
Charles William Howard
1944-August-19
Killed in Flying Accident
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Roy Arnold Sims
1944-August-19
Killed in Flying Accident
Rocky Mountain House, Alberta
Ernest Joseph Shelling
1944-August-19
Killed in Flying Accident
Nakusp, British Columbia
Francis David Seagrim
1944-August-19
Killed in Flying Accident
St Vital, Manitoba