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As below, sometimes I get lucky in my research and find a member of the Ground crew, but I also need some help getting info on LAC Richard Weighill, if available. As always, any help truly appreciated. Gordon-Karen Weighill My dad was LAC Richard Weighill a ground crew member of RCAF 418 (City of E...

His real name was Vonner Randolph Cherry

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I have just looked at the service records for Robert, his death certificate within those, indicate he was single at the time of his death. I did the same BFBSM with same results. That’s why i reread his newspaper article that he posted and it says in “was” to marry, so I think that didn’t happen. I...

Went searching…….a photo of him…….and another article which says he DID marry. Again I can’t find any confirmation of that

Hi, Flight Sergeant Horning was killed Jan. 14. 1942, in the loss of a #22 OTU Welllington DV481. At the Find a Grave website here is a reference in a paper (from Dundas, Ontario?) that he had recently been married to "a Miss Harding, of Stratford-On-Avon [England]", but there is no reference to th...

Hi Readers, AC1 Thomas Begley McLean died April 25, 1940 of injuries sustained when the vehicle he was a passenger in was hit by a train at a level crossing in a snowstorm near Sydney, Nova Scotia, two other RCAF were killed and the driver badly injured. Newspaper clippings at the Canadian Virtual ...

Hi Temujin, Complete and more. That he only arrived at his Squadron the day before his loss is tragic. I wonder how that was done in a Hampden. Was he a second pilot making his flight for experience? Replacing an Air Gunner perhaps? Many Thanks, Paul Squires Wetaskiwin, Alberta Actually Paul, in a ...

Good afternoon, I'm doing research into bridges built by 5 Field Company during WW2, in particular, around the Netherlands and Germany. I have a great source written by a former member of 5 Field, Stanley C. Fields. It's called "History of the 5th Field Company Royal Canadian Engineers 1941-1946". ...

Good afternoon, I'm doing research into bridges built by 5 Field Company during WW2, in particular, around the Netherlands and Germany. I have a great source written by a former member of 5 Field, Stanley C. Fields. It's called "History of the 5th Field Company Royal Canadian Engineers 1941-1946". ...