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Date: | Sunday 8 December 1940 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Fairey Battle Mk I (TT) |
Owner/operator: | 4 B&GS RCAF |
Registration: | RCAF 1650 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Lake Erie, near Port Burwell, Ontario -
Canada
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RCAF Fingal, Ontario |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Fairey Battle RCAF 1650, of 4 B&GS (Bombing & Gunnery School), RCAF Fingal, Ontario. Written off (destroyed) 8 December 1940 when crashed into Lake Erie, near Port Burwell, Ontario. Aircraft originally posted as "missing" until wreckage washed ashore at Fort Bruce, and discovered two days later the crash, with the crew still on board the aircraft. All three crew killed. All bodies recovered, and buried in three separate locations - one in Michigan, USA and two in Ontario, Canada
Crew:
Flying Officer (C/2789) Leon Arthur HOOD (pilot) RCAF - killed on active service, buried at West Adrian Cemetery, Michigan, USA
AC2 (R/78034) Ernest William BOURNE (Air Gunner) RCAF - killed on active service 8/12/1940, buried at Whitby (Mount Lawn Cemetery) Whitby, Ontario
AC2 (R/71450) John Henry McNALLY (Air Gunner) RCAF - killed on active service 8/12/1940, buried at Kenora (Lake of the Woods) Cemetery, Kenora, Ontario
Fairey Battle RCAF 1650 was ex-RAF L5608; No RAF service, stored until struck off RAF charge 26 April 1940. Taken on charge by the RCAF on 6 May 1940. Struck Off RCAF Charge 28 February 1941
Sources:
1. The Battle File (Sidney Shail, Air Britain, 1997 p.155/p.196)
2. Royal Air Force Aircraft L1000-L9999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1979 p.37)
3. The Windsor Daily Star 9 December 1940, p13
3.
https://www.rcafassociation.ca/heritage/history/fallen-aviators/rcaf-casualties-second-world-war/mckie-to-middlemiss/ 4.
http://www.rwrwalker.ca/RCAF_1650_1699_detailed.html 5.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2719789/LEON%20ARTHUR%20HOOD/ 6.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2266199/ERNEST%20WILLIAM%20BOURNE/ 7.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2686856/JOHN%20HENRY%20McNALLY/ Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Jan-2018 16:43 |
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16-Oct-2020 01:40 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Registration, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
16-Oct-2020 10:20 |
TB |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Narrative, Operator] |
24-Oct-2020 17:54 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
24-Oct-2020 18:28 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
25-Oct-2020 14:47 |
DB |
Updated [Operator, Narrative, Operator] |