5 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: 5 BGS 5 Bomb and Gunnery School RCAF (119)

1941-June-11 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Price | Spencer | Venable
1941-June-11 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Campbell | Coles | Searle
1941-June-14 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Colson | Ransome | Storie
1941-July-04 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Dafoe Saskatchewan Names: Hawthorne | Monette | Young
1941-July-20 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Lewis | Price
1941-August-07 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Yorkton Aerodrome Names: Kirkpatrick | Mckenzie | Waldbauer | Wilson
1941-August-08 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Nicolle | Powell | Toh
1941-September-13 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Berg | Blouin
1941-October-10 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Ritchie | Watt
1941-October-30 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Stringer | Tomlinson | Urquhard | Waters | Wrightson
1941-November-03 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Anderson | Bradley | Brady
1941-November-20 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Hay | Jackson | Lonquet | Morrison | Slaughter
1941-November-20 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Hay | Jackson | Lonquet | Morrison | Slaughter
1941-November-24 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Brock | Price | Rodgers | Willis
1941-November-24 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Brock | Price | Rodgers | Willis
1941-December-01 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Coles | Cote | Crothers
1941-December-02 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Babcock | Bennner | Henry
1941-December-04 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Trapp
1941-December-21 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Hawthorn | Hay
1942-January-13 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Pitcurebutte Names: Dewis | Foster | Lawson
1942-January-15 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Souberman
1942-February-13 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome At Dafoe Names: Adams | Bartlett | Dahl | Garnett
1942-February-18 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Barber | Blakeley | Macewen | Seale
1942-February-18 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Barber | Blakeley | Macewen | Seale
1942-March-04 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cook | Ninnes | Oliver
1942-March-23 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Haggart | Harris | Harris | Hood | Hower | Naoum
1942-March-23 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Haggart | Harris | Harris | Hood | Hower | Naoum
1942-April-01 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Blakeley | Jackson | Milne
1942-April-09 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Ashworth | Kirby | Raven | Seward
1942-April-30 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Korte | Thorburn | Witney
1942-May-07 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Coppess | Vanbrunt | Wheeler
1942-May-07 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Names: Coppress
1942-May-08 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Brant | Chisholm | Reagan
1942-May-22 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bailey | Buchan | Haley
1942-May-22 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Lawson | Lowry
1942-May-22 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Lawson | Lowry
1942-June-02 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Donaldson | Larocque | Pyman
1942-June-18 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cruse | Kirkpatrick | Pearson
1942-June-19 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Larocque | McCarter | Scott
1942-June-19 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Hilbert | Sugrue
1942-June-19 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Hilbert | Sugrue
1942-July-05 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Carver | Farrow | Tomlinson | Whitby
1942-July-07 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: In Flight Names: Blagborne | Chambers | Drake | Dunstan | Harkness | Harris
1942-July-07 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: In Flight Names: Blagborne | Chambers | Drake | Dunstan | Harkness | Harris
1942-July-13 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Stevenson Field At No 8 Names: McCann | Mimeault
1942-July-20 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Beldone | Haley | Russell
1942-July-20 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Allan | Atherton | Bell | Dyer | Mclean
1942-July-21 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Barker | Birrell | Parker
1942-July-23 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bail | Bowden | Dunn | Nickerson | Parker | Parker | Ward
1942-July-23 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bail | Bowden | Dunn | Nickerson | Parker | Parker | Ward
1942-July-28 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Brigden | Buckley | Mckenzie
1942-August-03 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Chesters
1942-August-05 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Morgan | Russel | Sugrue
1942-August-07 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Davies
1942-August-07 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Davies
1942-August-07 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Davies
1942-August-07 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Gilfillan | Hinchcliffe | Wheeler
1942-August-07 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Mckenzie
1942-August-07 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Brooks | Caughey | Dyre-mathews
1942-August-19 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Baker | Dyre-mathews
1942-September-09 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Names: Sawrie | Thom | Wallis
1942-September-17 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Mckenzie | Powell | Sinclair
1942-September-17 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Mckenzie | Powell | Sinclair
1942-October-12 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Burton | Macphail | Williams
1942-October-21 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Allan | Laidlaw | Mcintosh
1942-October-27 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Watson
1942-October-29 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Yorkton Aerodrome Names: Cleghorn | Paterson | Plumer | Spencer
1942-December-09 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Quill Lake Names: Morgan | Phillips | Selfe
1942-December-13 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cruse | Hariman | Rees | Young
1942-December-13 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cruse | Hariman | Rees | Young
1942-December-28 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Hilbert | Wheeler
1942-December-29 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Poplar Point Manitoba Names: Gibson | Maclachlan | Paddick
1943-January-06 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Quill Lake Village Names: Cook | Mather | Stewart | Swick
1943-January-08 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bigwood | Seward
1943-January-10 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Quill Lake Village Names: Chappell | Mcneilly | Moisley | Sugrue
1943-February-15 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Sutherland | Thomson
1943-February-19 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Myers | Schultz
1943-February-19 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Boudreau | Lough | Mathers | Meyer
1943-February-21 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Fuller | Gray | Ireland | Melbourne | Srigley
1943-February-22 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Edmonds | Mcfarlane | Mckinnon
1943-March-09 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Yorkton Saskatchewan Names: Heirimeier
1943-March-25 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bradshaw | Given | Moore
1943-March-26 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Tarmac Names: Boyd | Clewley | Lemal | MacDonald
1943-March-26 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Tarmac Names: Boyd | Clewley | Lemal | MacDonald
1943-March-29 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: SEast Humbolt Saskatchewan Names: Fahl | Macfarlane | Mckenzie | Montador | Walsh
1943-April-08 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Blackburn | Paddick
1943-April-10 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Ferguson | Flanagan | Hersey | Whitehead
1943-April-15 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Lee | Mortimore | Stockdale
1943-April-28 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Blackburn | Fitzsimmons
1943-June-25 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Battrum | Clow | Hierlmeier
1943-July-08 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Colvin | Dorrell | Harries
1943-July-19 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Cleveland | Lewis
1943-July-20 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Waddell
1943-July-23 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Dafoe Saskatchewan Names: Free | Nord
1943-July-24 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Greenlay | Schultz
1943-August-02 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Arnold | Beresford | Lloyd
1943-August-07 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Ash | Aspinall | Blythe | Gettys
1943-August-11 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Allan | Goward
1943-August-16 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Ogilvie | Pearson | Smart | Williams
1943-August-31 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Davies | Simon
1943-September-30 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Bogart | Hansen
1943-October-14 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Jansen Saskatchewan Names: Carling | Jamison
1943-November-26 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Leroy Names: Barnes | Crosthwaite | Galgan | Hill
1944-February-08 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Hemmingway | Horseley | Peterson | Willcox | Wilson
1944-February-08 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Wynyard Saskatchewan Names: Harlow | Holmes | Hyslop | Smith
1944-March-03 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Driscoll | Finkelstein | Gibson | Hughes | Taylor
1944-April-05 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Daphne Names: Toler
1944-April-26 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Mceachern | Mcelgunn | Paslowskie | Wright
1944-May-11 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Crandall Names: Bornstein | Mawdesley
1944-May-24 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Butcher | Mitchell | Newton | Rolls | Steeden
1944-June-07 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Harris | Hass
1944-October-03 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Tate
1944-October-30 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Conklin | Coutts | Fox | Horst | Jansonn | Lawson | Ling | Loewen
1944-October-30 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Conklin | Coutts | Fox | Horst | Jansonn | Lawson | Ling | Loewen
1944-December-02 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Ambridge | Beer | Christisonm | Godwin | Olver
1945-January-15 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Baxter | Lightstone | Maclean | Mergny | Ridgeway | Romance
1945-January-15 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Aerodrome Names: Baxter | Lightstone | Maclean | Mergny | Ridgeway | Romance
1945-January-20 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: 4 Service Flying Training School Names: Logan | Miller
1945-February-16 Accident: 5 Bomb & Gunnery School Loc: Swift Current Saskatchewan Names: Gaetz | Spencer

Unit Casualtues: 5 BGS 5 Bomb and Gunnery School RCAF (43)

Ronald Kenneth Crothers
1941-December-01
Killed in Flying Accident
Battle Mk. I 2068
Colin Alfred Coles
1941-December-01
Killed in Flying Accident
Battle Mk. I 2068
Joseph Leandre Gilles Cote
1941-December-01
Killed in Flying Accident
Battle Mk. I 2068
Montreal, Quebec (parents)
Harry Naoum
1942-March-23
Killed in Flying Accident
Battle Mk. I 2069
Montreal, Quebec
George Gerald Joseph Hower
1942-March-23
Killed in Flying Accident
Battle Mk. I 1892
Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
Donald Francis Hood
1942-March-23
Killed in Flying Accident
Battle Mk. I 1892
Vancouver, British Columbia
Emerson Philip Harris
1942-March-23
Killed in Flying Accident
Battle Mk. I 2069
Speers, Saskatchewan
Osborne Victor Nickerson
1942-July-23
Killed in Flying Accident
Battle Mk. I 2066
Pleasant Lake, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
Eustace Hedley Dunn
1942-July-23
Killed in Flying Accident
Battle Mk. I 2066
Burnham, Saskatchewan
Joseph Phillip Arthur Bail
1942-July-23
Killed in Flying Accident
Battle Mk. I 1925
St Lambert, Quebec
Frederick Walter Selfe
1942-December-09
Killed in Flying Accident
Bolingbroke Mk. IVT 9924
Reginald Ivor Morgan
1942-December-09
Killed in Flying Accident
Bolingbroke Mk. IVT 9924
Jack William Phillips
1942-December-09
Killed in Flying Accident
Bolingbroke Mk. IVT 9924
Fort William, Ontario
Terry John Sugrue
1943-January-10
Killed in Flying Accident
Bolingbroke Mk. IVT 10000
William Raymond Moisley
1943-January-10
Killed in Flying Accident
Bolingbroke Mk. IVT 10000
Raymond Charles Chappell
1943-January-10
Killed in Flying Accident
Bolingbroke Mk. IVT 10000
James Alexander Meneilly
1943-January-10
Killed in Flying Accident
Bolingbroke Mk. IVT 10000
Biggar, Saskatchewan
Edward Walsh
1943-March-29
Killed in Flying Accident
Bolingbroke Mk. IVT 9935
Cecil Malcolm McKenzie
1943-March-29
Killed in Flying Accident
Bolingbroke Mk. IVT 9935
Turtleford, Saskatchewan
Reginald Robert MacFarlane
1943-March-29
Killed in Flying Accident
Bolingbroke Mk. IVT 9935
Vancouver, British Columbia
John Gordon Rix Harries
1943-July-08
Killed in Flying Accident
Bolingbroke Mk. IVT 10072
Walter William Dorrell
1943-July-08
Killed in Flying Accident
Bolingbroke Mk. IVT 10072
David Alexander Colvin
1943-July-08
Killed in Flying Accident
Bolingbroke Mk. IVT 10072
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (parents)
Elmer Joseph Schultz
1943-July-24
Killed in Flying Accident
Lysander Mk. IIIA TT 2368
Hubbard, Saskatchewan
Wallace Brian Greenlay
1943-July-24
Killed in Flying Accident
Lysander Mk. IIIA TT 2368
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Thomas Banks Rendell Crosthwaite
1943-November-26
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. II 11287
John Barnes
1943-November-26
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. II 11287
William Leslie Hill
1943-November-26
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. II 11287
Lenore, Manitoba
Peter Edward Galgan
1943-November-26
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. II 11287
Dana, Saskatchewan
Raymond Hemingway
1944-February-08
Killed in Flying Accident
Bolingbroke Mk. IVT 10195
Douglas Kitchener Wilson
1944-February-08
Killed in Flying Accident
Bolingbroke Mk. IVT 10195
Vancouver, British Columbia
Stephen Newton
1944-May-24
Killed in Flying Accident
Bolingbroke Mk. IVT 9881
Stanley Edwin Steeden
1944-May-24
Killed in Flying Accident
Bolingbroke Mk. IVT 9881
Colonsay, Saskatchewan
William David Mitchell
1944-May-24
Killed in Flying Accident
Bolingbroke Mk. IVT 9881
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
Frederick Lloyd Butcher
1944-May-24
Killed in Flying Accident
Bolingbroke Mk. IVT 9881
Solsgirth, Manitoba
Henry Loewen
1944-October-30
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6524
Rokeby, Saskatchewan
Stanley Harold Ling
1944-October-30
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6389
Sardis, British Columbia
Lars Cyril Jansonn
1944-October-30
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6524
Crestwynd, Saskatchewan
George Horst
1944-October-30
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6524
Rosthern, Saskatchewan
Ronald Ellis Fox
1944-October-30
Killed in Flying Accident
Anson Mk. I 6524
Lloydminster, Saskatchewan