7 Squadron (RCAF) -

Lineage (excerpt)

Authorized as 'No.7 (General Purpose) Squadron' 1 November 1935. Disbanded 10 September 1939.

Reformed as 'No.7 (Bomber Reconnaissance) Squadron' 8 December 1941. Disbanded 25 July 1945.

Operational history

The Second World War

The squadron flew on anti-submarine operations on the Pacific Coast under 'Western Air Command'.

Government of Canada, The Insignia and Lineages of the Canadian Forces, Volume 4: Operational Flying Squadrons (A-AD-267-000/AF-004)

Unit Accident Records: 7 Sqn RCAF (33)

1942-January-04 Accident: 7 BR Squadron Loc: Finlayson Landing & Big Bay Names: Collins | Cormier | Hankinson | McLeod | Roberts | Stewrt
1942-January-05 Accident: 7 BR Squadron Loc: Prince Rupert Harbour Names: Dewes | MacDonald | Parker
1942-February-05 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: Prince Rupert Harbour Names: Gault | Hankison | Penn
1942-February-28 Accident: 7 BR Squadron Loc: Prince Rupert Harbour Names: Dorland | Hankinson | Hawkins
1942-April-04 Accident: 7 BR Squadron Loc: Prince Rupert Harbour Names: Mckenna | Taylor
1942-April-21 Accident: 7 BR Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: Fitzpatrick | Rhodes | Switzer
1942-June-01 Accident: 7 BR Squadron Loc: Prince Rupert Names: Doolittle | Fitzpatrick | Hawkins
1942-June-09 Accident: 7 BR Squadron Loc: Prince Rupert Names: Moyles | Van Houten
1942-June-20 Accident: 7 BR Squadron Loc: Digby Is Names: Baum | Phillips
1942-September-13 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: Prince Rupert Harbour Names: Coulter | Doolittle | Fitzpatrick
1943-January-19 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: Prince Rupert Harbour Names: Fleishman | Moyles | Vanhouten
1943-January-27 Accident: 7 BR Squadron Loc: Prince Rupert Harbour Names: Hogg | Kenny | Taylor
1943-March-02 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: Tuck Inlet Prince Rupert Harbour Names: Cousins | Dorland
1943-April-02 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: Shear Water Island Names: Bell | Clark | Davis | Dorland | Edwards | Greene | Hankinson | Hughes | Kanonowicz | Livingstone | Mcadam | Penn | Rainville | Van Houton | Wild
1943-April-20 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: Prince Rupert Harbour Names: Brownridge | Dorland | Lamb | Morris | Rainville | Shead
1943-April-29 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: 53:28n 129:31w Names: Fairholm | Livingstone | Van Houten
1943-May-09 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: Jericho Beach Names: Arnold | Coon | Davis | Dorland | Gilliam | Good | Lanskail | Mckenzie | Parsons | Penn | Rhodes | Smith | Steele | Taylor | Thomas
1943-July-26 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: Prince Rupert Harbour Names: Bristow | Crawford | Elliot | Hammersley | Moyles | Stewart | Vanhouten
1943-September-21 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: Seal Cove British Columbia Names: Dorge | Fraser | Tite | Wight
1943-October-07 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: Prince Rupert Names: Anderson | Coon | Crawford | Davies | Gallinger | Hewett | Kennedy | Maartman | Potter | Rebo | Rennie | Schirrf | Stewart
1943-December-05 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: Tuck Inlet British Columbia Names: Aldous | Blizzard | Crute | Kellet | Mckellar | Richmond | Riddell
1943-December-09 Accident: 7 BR Squadron Loc: Captain's Cove British Columbia Names: Betteridge | Kimmerly | Komich | Mckillop | Thomas
1943-December-19 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: Duckworth | Fereday | Gannett | Kanonowicz | Lindsay | McCallum | Skelton | Smith | Spratt
1944-January-12 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: Seal Cove Names: Bell | Fraser | Gill | Roberts | Tweedale
1944-January-24 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: Hangar Apron Names: Brownridge | Field
1944-January-24 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: Prince Ruper Harbour Names: Brownridge | Field
1944-May-31 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: Alliford Bay British Columbia Names:
1944-July-29 Accident: 7 BR Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: Brentnall | Clark | Clausen | Collins | Game | Hope
1944-October-30 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: Alliford Bay British Columbia Names: Rougeau | Talbot
1944-October-30 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: Alliford Bay British Columbia Names: Rougeau | Talbot
1945-January-12 Accident: 7 BR Squadron Loc: Alliford Bay Names: Blizzard | Duckmanton | Helter | Major | Mcauley | McCallum | Turcotte | Tweedale
1945-March-26 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: Alliford Bay Names: Benson | Bullied | Craig | Gorrie | Kean | Lamb | O'Connor | Rogers
1945-April-17 Accident: 7 Squadron Loc: Alliford Bay British Columbia Names: Dionne | Love | Michell | Rosenburg | Whitby | Wilson | Wuerch

Unit Casualtues: 7 Sqn RCAF (14)

Ralph Ervin McLeod
1942-January-04
Killed in Action
Shark III 518
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Joseph Erval Eric Cormier
1942-January-04
Killed in Action
Shark III 518
Vancouver, British Columbia (parents)
Harold Edwin Phillips
1942-June-20
Killed in Action
Shark III 524
Auburn, New York, USA
Hyman Baum
1942-June-20
Killed in Action
Shark III 524
Montreal, Quebec
Byron Adair Trapp
1942-June-21
Killed in Action
Stirling Mk. l W7472
Harris, Saskatchewan (parents)
Robert Nelson Parham
1942-June-21
Killed in Action
Stirling Mk. l W7472
Toronto, Ontario
James Robert Heslop
1942-June-21
Killed in Action
Stirling Mk. l W7472
Outrennont, Quebec (parents)
Allan Roy Evans
1942-October-02
unknown
Dryden, Ontario
Kenneth Laverne Howard
1942-November-10
Killed in Action
Stirling Mk. l R9169
Mount Dennis, Ontario, Canada
Allan Hogg
1943-January-28
Killed in Action
Shark III 547
Merritt, British Columbia
William Joseph Dempster
1943-February-02
Killed in Action
Stirling Mk. l R9264
Toronto, Ontario (parents)
Joseph Alexander Fraser
1943-September-21
Killed in Action
Shark III 548
Chase, British Columbia
Louis Oscar Dorge
1943-September-21
Killed in Action
Shark III 548
Irvine, Alberta
Eric Joseph Fereday
1943-December-19
Killed in Action
Canso A 9786
Toronto, Ontario