WABB, WILLIAM ROBERT LLOYD LAC R160172 – instrument technician. From Toronto, Ontario. Killed in Action Oct 12/44 age 22. #6416 Servicing Echelon. One of several airmen killed when an enemy high explosive bomb made a direct hit on a dispersal site at the #127 Wing Landing Strip. Please see Sykes J.E. for casualty list. Leading… Read More

VACHERESSE, WILLIAM MACDONALD FS(WAG) R76480. From Ste Marton, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. Killed Aug 20/42 age 26. #5 Operational Training Unit. Beaufort aircraft crashed. Please see Sgt D.G. Taylor for casualty list and flight detail. Flight Sergeant Wireless Operator Air Gunner Vacheresse is buried in the Dunure Cemetery, Ayrshire County, Scotland. VAGG, ROBERT ARTHUR JAMES… Read More

TINKESS, DONALD GUTHRIE F/O(N) J45437. From Ottawa, Ontario. Killed Jan 13/45 age 24. #60 Operational Training Unit. Anson aircraft # MK 890 crashed at Luneal Wood two and three quarters miles southwest of Northwood Village, Shropshire, England. Five airmen, not Canadians, were also killed. Flying Officer Navigator Tinkess is buried in the Blacon Cemetery, Chester,… Read More

TABOR, JOHN FRANCIS EDWARD F/O(P) J27196. From Ottawa, Ontario. Killed in Action Jun 17/44 age 21. #426 Thunderbird Squadron (On Wings of Fire). Target – Sterkrade, Germany. Please see Shannon G.R. for casualty list and flight detail. Flying Officer Pilot Tabor is buried in the Protestant Churchyard at Makkum, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Holland. TABOR, WALTER THOMAS… Read More

STEVENTON, GORDON MELVILLE LAC(P) R134543 – under training. From Winnipeg, Manitoba. Killed Sep 15/42 age 25. #12 Service Flying Training School, Brandon, Manitoba. LAC Steventon and P/O C.H. Thompson (RNZAF) were engaged in low-flying and were both killed when they flew Cessna Crane aircraft #FJ 261 into a straw stack near Newstead, Manitoba. Leading AirCraftman… Read More

SHARMAN, DONALD CHARLES F/L(P) 33529 – Royal Air Force. From West Vancouver, British Columbia. Killed in Action Sep 6/42 age 24. #39 Squadron (Die Noctuque). Beaufort aircraft did not return from operations. There were two #39 Sqdn. aircraft lost on this date. Those killed included; Lt R.C.B. Evans (SAAF), Sgts A. Calvert (RAF), E.R. Cox… Read More

SABINE, EUGENE PRESTON P/O(N) J88898//R167534. From Ethelton, Saskatchewan. Killed in Action May 25/44 age 26. #192 Squadron. Target – Aachen, Germany. Halifax aircraft #MZ 501 was on a special operation and was shot down at St. Trond, Belgium. P/Os A.0 Macallivray, C.D. Stroud, P/O P. Hicken (RAF), F/O J.D. Hurley (RAF), Sgts P.J. Jeffs (RAF),… Read More

RIEDY, ROBERT HARVEY FS(P) R66334. From Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Killed Mar 18/42. #15 Operational Training Unit, White Waltham, England. Wellington aircraft #W 4265 swung on takeoff and collided with Hudson aircraft #N 7332. The Wellington became airborne, then stalled, crashed and burned at Mount Farm. Sgt C.G. Wiley was killed in the Wellington and FS… Read More

PABLO, DANIEL LAWRENCE FS(P) R109023. From Elmo, Montana, U.S.A. Killed in Action Sep 11/42 age 22. #22 Operational Training Unit. Wellington aircraft lost. Please see Sullivan C.R. for casualty list and flight detail. Flight Sergeant Pilot Pablo was buried in the Parish Cemetery at Osterwick, Germany, exhumed, and reinterred in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery,… Read More

O’BEIRNE, WILLIAM FREDERICK HOWARD P/O(WAG) J36468. From Indian Head, Saskatchewan. Killed Jan 27/44 age 21. #6 Advanced Flying Unit. The crew of Anson aircraft #DJ 659 were on a night navigation exercise when the aircraft flew into some clouds and went out of control. The Anson crashed at Compton Casey near the RAF Station at… Read More