122 Squadron (RCAF) -

Lineage (excerpt)

Authorized as 'No.122 (Composite) Squadron' 10 January 1942. Disbanded 15 September 1945.

Operational history

The Second World War

The squadron flew on communications, artillery co- operation and rescue operations 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: 122 Sqn RCAF (35)

1942-January-22 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Patricia Bay British Columbia Names: Magwood | Rogers
1942-January-22 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Patricia Bay British Columbia Names: Magwood | Rogers
1942-January-26 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Patricia Bay British Columbia Names: Bliss | Williams
1942-February-27 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Ucluclet British Columbia Names: Beaumond | Buchanan | Diamond | Roberts | Schooling | Watson
1942-March-02 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Patricia Bay Names: Burke | Grice
1942-April-14 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Piers Island Names: Baxter | Wooster
1942-April-19 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Sea Island Names: Herriot | Roberts
1942-June-18 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Sea Island British Columbia Names: Allan | Heaslip | Powell
1942-July-04 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: R1 Tofino British Columbia Names: Horne | Lukey
1942-July-21 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Yakataga Alaska Names: Baily | Donald | Gault | Maylor | Mcintosh | Roberts | Silberman
1942-September-08 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: Burke | Webb
1942-September-08 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: Burke | Webb
1942-October-06 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Rcaf Stn Names: Delaveau | Dingwall | Hennell
1942-October-28 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Nootka Bay Names: Hansen | Loudoun | Rogers | Whiting
1943-January-14 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Patricia Bay Aerodrome Names: Morganstern | Perley-martin
1943-February-11 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: Hosie | Norton | Painter
1943-March-16 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Mill Bay 7 Mile South Of Patricia Bay Names: Dion | Seaker | Switzer
1943-March-22 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: North West Bay Near Qualicum British Columbia Names: Brown | Campbell | Hall | Horne | Wells | Williamson
1943-June-08 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: Jackson | Kimmerly | Knutsonnm
1943-October-15 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Seas Is Names: Lumsden | Yates
1943-December-19 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Patricia Bay Names: Casement | I'anson | Miners | Rumball | Swain | Thomas
1944-February-16 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Pat Bay Names: Lukey | Morris
1944-March-04 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: West
1944-March-31 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Terrace British Columbia Names: Brock | Hampton | Mobely | West | Wright
1944-April-12 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Patricia Bay Names: Yates
1944-August-10 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Patricia Bay Names: Howard
1944-August-18 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Patricia Bay British Columbia Names: Brownwell | Emerson | Fountain | Grant | Hornby | Mcmaster | Robinson | Seldon | Selwyn | Walsh
1944-August-18 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Patricia Bay Names: Brownwell | Emerson | Fountain | Grant | Hornby | Mcmaster | Robinson | Seldon | Selwyn | Walsh
1944-September-28 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: Seymour | West
1944-November-08 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Prince George British Columbia Names: Forsyth | Latta
1945-March-04 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Patricia Bay British Columbia Names: Forsyth | Rowe | Stuart
1945-March-22 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: Clark | Gimnes | Robinson | Thorburn
1945-April-17 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: Forsythe | Hipwell | Tompkins
1945-May-30 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Aerodrome Names: Barkhouse | Tatton
1945-August-22 Accident: 122 (COMPOSITE) Squadron Loc: Pt Hardy Airfield Names: Bennett | Gibbs | Murray | Nafe | Steane | Stevens | Varley

Unit Casualtues: 122 Sqn RCAF (7)

Warren Somers Wooster
1942-April-14
Killed in Action
Lysander Mk. II 461
New Westminster, British Columbia
John McIntosh
1942-July-21
Killed in Action
Goose Mk. III 917
Penticton, British Columbia
Thomas Brown Donald
1942-July-21
Killed in Action
Goose Mk. III 917
New Westminster, British Columbia (parents)
Stuart Allan Switzer
1943-March-16
Killed in Action
Bolingbroke Mk. IV 9084
Wapella, Saskatchewan (parents)
Ronald Arthur Seaker
1943-March-16
Killed in Action
Bolingbroke Mk. IV 9084
Calgary, Alberta
Walter Leon Dion
1943-March-16
Killed in Action
Bolingbroke Mk. IV 9084
The Pas, Manitoba
Leslie Earle Heal
1944-November-06
Died
Sidney, British Columbia