NO. 2 SERVICE FLYING TRAINING SCHOOL UPLANDS: Flying Instructors August 9, 1940

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Flying Instructors August 9, 1940

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bobmartinphotoNovember 28, 2016 at 10:10 AM
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Does anyone have the names of the individuals in the picture?
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Flying Instructors

(C535) Ernest Hutchison Glen 'Ernie' Moncrieff, chief instructor

F/L A.N. Martin CFI

(J/7757) William Robert Wilson - AFC (Co. 33 9 SF): (J/3492 - R/53938) Robert Stuart Hyndman; +David William Armstrong Harling, Flying Officer M. Haig, (C2504) Roger Armstrong Stevenson, (J/8963) Donald Nathan Aldrich; (J/5121) Archibald Ward Bishop (Co. 20 6 SF); (J/7908) Malcolm James Gordon - (Co. 34 6 SF) DFC 421 Sqn.; +(J/23033) Charles Cyril Drew - (Co. 25 9 SF) AFC KIFA 540 Sqn., +(J/10397) George Percival Wyse -(Co. 16 9 SF) 427 Sqn., Ottawa; +(J/10396 - R/54896) Gunnar Freese - KIFA RCAF Yarmouth; (J/13023) Alexander Shukis; Jack Morgan, Calgary; (J/5827) William Ross McAllister - AFC (Co. 25 9 SF); (J/12889) Eric George Smith - (Co. 52 1 SF) DFC 107 Sqn.; (J/21125) John Baskerville Conlin - DFC 107 Sqn.; +(AUS.409692) William Alexander Greenshields - 107 Sqn.; (J/26121) Jacob Gill 'Jake' Gaudaur Jr., Orillia; (J/14030) Hartland Ross Finley - DFC 403/443 Sqns.; (C/1585) Stanley Yendle Broadbent; (J/10267) John (Keith) Besley - 74 Sqn., Shelburne (Co. 42 8 SF); +(R/137395 - J/29801) Edward John Bowers Jr., P/O E.J. Eyles; (R/136A) S/P Martin; (J/3097) Mathew Willard Burris (Co. 3 1 SF); (R/65820) S/P C.A. Wilson; (R/54087) S/P Hydes: (C/1624) J.D. Hall; (R/65058) S/P R.K. Hayward; (C/1194) Warren; +(J/4871) Felix Paget Boswell; (J/3998) R.C. Moffatt (Co. 14 6 SF); (J/11312) B.D. McArthur, Guelph (Co. 46 6 SF); (J/15182) Eric Pook - 54/412 Sqns; (J/6804) D.F. Clark (Co. 29 10 SF); (J/7828) Charles Albert Lambert - (Co. 34 1 SF) 439 Sqn., Ingersoll; (J/13321) E.F. Sanderson - Nav Flt. (Co. 54 8 SF); +(J/12315) Walter Tuhkanen Haileybury KIFA - (Co. 50 8 SF); (J/3100) Richard Carlton Stovel 1 SF - AFC, Winnipeg; (J/11299) Donald Alexander McLeod (Co. 46 4 SF); (J/5100) James Carter Hovey - (8 SF Co. 38) DFC 415 Sqn., Madue, Ontario; (J/21871) F.D. Bradford; (J/10993) J.R. Galbraith; (J/12545 - R/122652) Lester Edward Murdock - (Co. 51 2 SF); (J/12486) A.M. Davidson; (R/71493) T. Fridfinnson; (J/5967) Chris D. Teters; +(J/13591) Benjamin Peter Johnson- 418 Sqn.; +(J/12315) Walter Tuhkanen - (Co. 50 8 SF), Haileybury - KIFA 2 SF; (J/13037) Robert E. Nopper - 14 SF; +(J/8924) William Brodie Anderson - (Co. 39 13 SF) DFC; (J/4558) George L. Sprague, Ottawa; +(J/14828) John Worth Wright (Co. 58 1 SF) KIFA 61 OTU; (J/13581) J.E. Tarry; (J/2969) Donald Hadley Armstrong - AFC (Co. 2 2SF); (J/20020) Carson Peck Herrick - (Co. 51 2 SF); F/O R.A. Neff; (J/9166) Paul George Vaughan - Co. 38 11 SF; (J/11271) Harold Turner Hetherington; (R/135015) P.J. Baker; (R/138698) W.J.E. Fawcett; (C2153) B. Stuart; +(J/20564) Hugo Oscar Farner, Sarnia (Co. 60 6 SF); (J/26023) William W.A. Secord (Nav Flt.); (J/13341) John H. R. Lester, Burgessville (Co. 54 6 SF); (J/14334) D.W. Partridge; (J/20560) R.J. Donohue; (R/125080) E.E. Rhoades; (J/14756) J.W. McCullough; (J/14432) Frank MacArthur Rock - (Co. 57 2 SF); (AUS.420810) R.B. Bruce; (J/9283) J.K. Williams; (J/27049) G.F. Hanson; (J/11339) J.R. Harris - (Co. 46 8 SF); +(J/26136) John Nelson McDowell - KIFA 36 OTU; (AUS.409692) W.F. Greenshields; (R/131015) P.J. Baker; (J/26981) H.J.W. Craig; +(J/14401) Stanley Parker McGee DFC - 571 Sqn.; (J/26378) W.A. Ross; (J/28096) R.C. Beemer; (J/25788) L.H. Ferguson; (J/27985) R.W. Rutledge; (J/36349) H.V. McLean; (R/75672) J.E. Lesniewich; (J/27237) D.G. Helmer; (J/38047) L.S. Lutes; (J/42465) T.R. Walton; (R/50808) E.E. Little; (J/44549) A. Kaminak; (R/96221) I.B. McMartin; (R/94194) R.N. Clouston; (J/25460) S.J.P. Primeau; (J/26375) C.W. Cantley; (J/26375?) J.M. Caouette; (J/43304) J. Cunningham; (J/4925) Thomas C. Anderson - (Co. 18 6 SF), Ottawa; +(NZ415742) Edward Albert John Bradford (10 SF)

No. 2 Squadron: F/L Charles Erdley Wilmot

E Flight - No. 2 Squadron: F/L E.H. Moncrieff; (C1072) Dennis Garland 'Bud' Malloy - 402 Sqn. Dieppe; (C/1062) C.R. Knowles; F/O Reynolds; F/O Grant

Navigation Flight: Knox

May 6, 1941: (C/4802) F/O Bennett Lorel Duffey killed in night flying accident along with his student, (AUS.400721) Douglas Mervyn Lord.

September 27, 1940: (C/1806) Donald Sidney Thomson Young and (GB.22174) Wing Commander Grenville Hammerton Shaw killed in flying accident.

October 15, 1941: At about 1530 hours (C741) Squadron Leader Charles Eardley Wilmot (AFC), Officer Commanding No. 2 Squadron, while walking across a taxi strip to an aircraft which he was to take up, was struck by the airscrew of another aircraft taxiing along the strip, and was almost instantly killed. Squadron Leader Wilmot was one of the oldest active flying instructors in the RCAF having been training pupils in the last was from 1917-19.

(C/1485) Donegan Frederick Phelan, killed in flying accident, May 5, 1941

May 7, 1943: P/O Hugo Farner with (R/67318) LAC J.D. Bradley, as student, struck wires while carrying out unauthorized low flying 100 miles NW of main aerodrome.

September 24, 1943: P/O Hugo Farner along with student pilot W/O A.E. Frazer killed in flying accident.

June 2, 1943: King's Birthday Honours announced: (C1760) S/L G.E. Wilson OBE; (J/23034 - R/74338) F/O Douglas Elliott Berry AFC; +(J/23022 - R/56386) F/O Percy Lloyd Buck AFC KIA 426 Sqn.; (R/66185) WO1 Jackson Murray Couse AFC

August 10, 1943: (J/21013) P/O Abraham Albert Schwartz killed in flying accident

C-12344 Pg. 1259

(J/2969) Flight Lieutenant Donald Hadley Armstrong
Air Force Cross
Citation: This officer as a flying instructor and presently as Examining Officer has been outstanding in the execution of his duties . By his quiet determination, cheerfulness and efficiency he has been a continuous source of inspiration to junior instructors and trainees. Flight Lieutenant Armstrong has devoted every effort in obtaining the best results from the pupils under his charge which has been exemplified in the many excellent pilots trained by him.

Course 2 - first BCATP Course: September 28, 1940

Intermediate training: August 5 - September 30, 1940

October 1, 1940: Course 2 starts with Advanced Training Squadron.

October 4, 1940: Group Captain Frank McGill presented wings and addressed the 28 graduates. First class to graduate from ITS.

"The wings you are getting today represent more than anything else in the world. They represent your admission to the service as a pilot in His Majesty's Service, and that to my mind is the greatest honor any man can have."

+(J/2968 - R50993) Cyril Hudson Carscadden; (J/2969) Donald Hadley Armstrong - AFC; (J/2970) James Adamson Thompson - AFC 132 Sqn.; (J/2971) W.R. Wilkes; (J/2972) Frederick Wishart Kelly - 412 Sqn. Dieppe DFC, Toronto; (J/2973) R.R. Gillespie; (J/2974) J.A.M. Bradley; (J/2975) Norman Hobson Bretz - DFC 402 Sqn. Dieppe; +(J/2976) Lloyd Vernon Chadburn - DSO & Bar, DFC 416 Sqn. Dieppe; (J/2977) D.J. Smith; (J/2978) A.S. Johnson, Toronto; J.J. Lawless, Toronto

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Brant-Norfolk Aero Club: Kelly

Kitchener-Waterloo Flying Club: Bretz

Edmonton Flying Club (Co. 1) May 27 - July 22, 1940: Carscadden

Border Cities Aero Club Windsor (Co. 3) May 27 - July 22, 1940: Chadburn

Course (4): October 21 - November 30, 1940

October 25, 1940: Air Marshal W. Bishop presents Wings to 38 graduates of Course 4.

Intermediate Course September 2 - October 19. 36 passed

(J/3194) Harry Sydney Crease - POW 402 Sqn.; (J/3195) David Lincoln Ramsay - 411 Sqn. Dieppe, 402/111 Sqns., Calgary; (J/3196) Frederick Bradley 'Brad' Foster - 402/417 Sqns., Montreal; (J/3197) Brian Willoughby Power; +(J/3198 - R/53845) Thomas Henry Caulkin - KIFA 10 SFTS; +(J/3199 - R/60666) James Elmslie Walker - 81 Sqn. Dieppe 402/243 Sqns. DFC & 2 Bars, KIFA Auster NK 116, Edmonton; (J/3200) Gordon Arnold Russell; (J/3201) William James 'Whit' Whitside - 118/250 DAF/417/145 Sqns., Petawawa/Simcoe; (J/3202) Louis Graham Neilly - FI 4 SF, DFC & Bar 429/405 Sqns., Gilford, Ont.; (J/3103) Douglas Henry Peacock; +(J/3204 - R/60045) William Harry Pentland - DFC 402/417/11/440 Sqns., (J/3205) Bradley Reardon Walker - DFC 403 Sqn., London, Ont.;

(R/63608) Douglas Campbell Gray; (J/12095) James Garvin Easson - DFC 7 (RCAF) Sqn.; (J10957) Livingstone 'Cap' Foster - DFC 416/421/403 Sqns.; (J/10395) Robert (Keith) Roulston - 161 Sqn., London, Ont.; +(J/10396 - R/54896) Gunnar Freese - KIFA RCAF Yarmouth; (R/63609) Kenneth B. 'Butch' Handley - 402 Sqn.; +(J/10956 - R/63673) James Albert Robertson FI 5/12/14 SF - 412 Sqn., London, Ont.; +(J10958) Robert Oswald Brown - FI 3/11 SF, 414 Sqn., Daysland, AB

+(R/63604) Peter George Mason and +(R/52650) Charles Harold Morgan - both killed November 22, 1940 at No. 2 SFTS

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No. 1 EFTS Malton (C0. 1): Roulston; Freese

No. 3 EFTS Crumlin (Co. 2): J.E. Walker, B.R. Walker, Whitside; Handley, Pentland, Robertson

No. 4 EFTS Windsor Mills (Co. 1): Neilly, Caulkin, Brown

Course 6: October 2 - November 22, 1940

First Australian graduates.

Wings presented to 37 members of Course 6 JATP by the Major General, the Honourable Sir William Glasgow, High Commissioner for Australia to Canada.

+(407071) Richard Lyndon Barrett; (407072) John Miller Bishop – 91 Sqn.; (400024) Thomas Raymond Breheny – 248 Sqn.; +(408000) George Maxwell 'Max' Briggs – 91/601 Sqn. Malta; +(400025) Robert Balmain Campbell; (406004) Selwyn McKenzie Clark, DFC; (407041) Montague Charles Carrington Cotton, DFC 43/17 Sqns.; (400051) Ronald Gustave Damman, (POW); (407018) Robert Lindsay Davies – 249/30 Sqns.; +(402000) Frederick Agnew Vance Drummond - 111 Sqn.; +(400054) Patrick Field - 37 Sqn.; (402002) Clive Mayor Hall - POW; +(408012) Philip Francis Grant Harbottle 232/75 Sqns.; +(406027) Kenneth Marshall Hicks - 242 Sqn.; (406012) Alexander McBride Kerr - POW; +(407077) John Kinnane - 7 Sqn.; (402048) George Lloyd; (408001) Michael Mayne Maxwell - 232/94 Sqns.; +(402004) Joseph Michael McCullough - 250 Sqn.; (400044) John Philip McKechnie - DFC, 242 Sqn. POW; +(404007) Eric William McLeod - 20 OTU; (402005) Allan Frank McSweyn - 115 Sqn., POW, MC; (407078) Ian Arthur Lace Milne, POW - 245/452 Sqns.; +(400045) David Knaggs Oak-Rhind; (400030) Eugene Hugh O'Neill, DSC, DFC; +(400029) Laurance David Orbuck (remustered to Observer 4 B&GS); +(407079) William Ronald Phillips; (402007) Alexander Cyffin Roberts, escaped POW, MiD; (400031) Keith Edward Robinson, DFC 9 Sqn., AFC, Polish Flying Badge; +(407019) Maxwell Robert Ross; +(402008) Arthur George Schwager - Middle East; (402041) Thomas William Scott; (407021) Frank Gemmel Sheppard - 605/249/185 Sqns. Malta; +(400032)William John Shirtcliffe; (402009) Eric Blair Tainton; +(402011) Robert James Uhrig; (400033) Ernest Valentine Walliker; (400048) Peter Frank Wilson; (407023) Francis Ainslie Wood; +(408003) Jack Steven Righards Woolnough

December 9, 1940 completed the intermediate training course at Uplands (September 30 - December 9, 1940)

Pilot-Officer Ron Phillips, of Adelaide acknowledged to be the best all-round pilot of the RAAF party which arrived recently in England from Canada under the Empire Training Scheme, told ' The Argus' representative the party had had a fine time in Canada.

"Although it was very cold, and once as low as 30 below, it was generally quite good flying weather. Living conditions in Canada were good. We were able to buy American cigarettes at the equivalent of 7d a package of 20. We were also issued with such useful items as zip-fastened snowboots, as ordinary leather isn't much good for tramping in deep snow. All our fellows leached a good level of proficiency.

"I must say we are surprised to see so little real bomb damage in London. We had thought to see great areas smashed up, but driving by motor-bus from the station to the RAF receiving depot, I noticed only a house down here and there.

"The blackouts are a bit hard to take because there is no such thing in Canada. Ottawa is a blaze of light, with the principal buildings even floodlit.

"A big party of Canadians accompanied us over here.

"I hope to be able to fly Spitfires or Hurricanes and, maybe, some of these new fighters they are talking about, but I must first put in time In an advanced training school somewhere," said Pilot-Officer Phillips.

Pilot Officer Phillips was killed May 28, 1941 while serving with No. 3 (RAF) Squadron

Australia's first monthly commitment for Canadian training was 40 pilots, 42 observers and 72 air gunners . Having passed their initial and elementary flying courses in Australia, the pilot trainees in this quota made up the first draft .

They left Australia in the Awatea on September 5th and disembarked at Vancouver on September 27th, nine months after the Ottawa Conference had created the Empire Air Training Plan.

There was keen interest in their arrival and their welcome by the Canadian Government and people was extremely cordial. After a formal welcome in which the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia took part, the airmen in their distinctive blue uniform marched through crowd-lined streets to entrain for No. 2 Service Flying Training School at Uplands, near Ottawa, which they reached on September 30th.

Soon after the first RAAF draft arrived at Uplands, the Department of Air released the following bulletin:

"Royal Canadian Air Force instructors are pleased with the flying standard of the Australians, all of whom were quickly able to fly the Yales.

"Since then they had been so inundated with offers of hospitality, that they have had to suggest to hostesses that, while they greatly appreciate their warmheartedness, they were, after all, at Uplands to work.

"The men are comfortable, happy and popular and very satisfied with the food. They have created an excellent impression, and have aroused great enthusiasm whenever they have marched."

Earlier it had been decided that, training requirements permitting, Australian trainees would be allocated to units in quotas of not fewer than 15.

Shortly after their arrival in Ottawa, Bob Uhrig, Joe McCullough and Arthur Schwager, three of the Aussie pilot trainees paid a visit the the newsroom of the Ottawa Citizen.

They were welcomed to Ottawa by Mayor Stanley Lewis, who happened to be visiting the newsroom.

Bob Uhrig commented: "I say, I wish you would correct a few mistaken ideas about Australia. You know we DO speak English and the country is not full of black men."

Arthur Schwager added: "There are more than 6,000 back home waiting to get a crack at Jerry. We consider ourselves fortunate to be among the first chosen. We are the envy of the rest at home, who are itching to see action.

"Our accent is not all English. We slur our words. You fellows sound a bit Yankee to us."

Sadly, Uhrig, Schwager and McCullough would not survive the war.

The 12-week course at Uplands was completed by the first draft just before the full effects of the Canadian winter had been experienced. Upon completion of the course, they graduates were qualified to wear Pilot's Badge under authority A.F.A.O. A51/2 Para 4.

At the "wings parade" 11 a.m. on November 22, 1940, 37 of the draft were awarded their pilot's flying badge - 'wings' by Sir Thomas William Glasgow, the Australian High Commissioner to Canada before a gathering of Australian and Canadian friends.

"It is a great pleasure to me to be here today to present 'wings' to you young Australians who have just qualified to wear them - the first Australians to do so in Canada under this great joint air training plan."

"I have been most interested and gratified at the satisfactory reports I have received from time to time on your training and bearing, and I congratulate you all most heartily on having reached this stage.

"These wings you are to receive today are insignia you may wear with just pride. They show to the world that you are fully qualified pilots in His Majesty's Air Force.

"You will now do a short period of advanced training here, and
then proceed to England to operational training units. Make the most of your opportunities and heed the advice of your competent instructors, because the lessons you are going to learn in the next few weeks will stand you in good stead when you make contact with the enemy.

"You are indeed crusaders. You will go forth thoroughly trained and equipped. You will fight side by side with airmen from all parts of the Empire, and from the countries of our gallant allies. Your cause is a just one. You will fight for freedom and justice, for humanity, and will play an important part in bringing about the defeat of our ruthless foe.

"Good luck to you all and happy landings.

"Finally, I would like to congratulate all present on parade for your smart appearance, and to thank the Commanding Officer, Group Captain McGill, his Officers, N.C.O.'s and airmen, for the warmth of the welcome they have given their Australian comrades, and the high standard of service flying instruction that has been imparted to them at this school."

December 9, 1940 completed the intermediate training course at Uplands (September 30 - December 9, 1940).

On December 25, 1940 the first Australians trained under the Empire Air Scheme landed in England . This party of twelve officers and twenty-three sergeant pilots had left Australia in July and had completed their flying training at Uplands.

407041 Acting F/Lt. Montague Charles Carrington Cotton
Distinguished Flying Cross - No. 17 Squadron
Citation: Displayed great courage and devotion to duty during fighting Burma. One occasion aerodrome attacked by strong force Japanese aircraft. Cotton immediately took off engaged enemy alone. After shooting down bomber his aircraft attacked by ten fighters. Burst of force from one punctured both petrol tanks and Cotton's left leg shattered. Despite this succeeded making perfecxt landing at aerodrome. Earlier same day distinguished himself during air raid by our aircraft on Moulmein Aerodrome.

400044 Pilot Officer John Phillip McKechnie
Distinguished Flying Cross - No. 242 Squadron
Citation: This officer has lead his section on numerous important daylight attack on enemy shipping. Displaying great leadership and determination often in face heavy fire from ships and ground defences McKechnie has contributed materially to successes achieved. Has also participated in many fighter sweeps and bomber escorts. Once he was instrumental in guiding rescue launch to one of our pilots who had been forced to descend into sea in mid channel. Throughout McKechnie has shown high degree skill and courage.

Course (9): August 17 - December 10, 1940

Wings Parade held for Course No. 9 JATP at 1400 hours.

Group Captain Frank S. McGill, officer commanding the station, addressed the parade prior to presenting wings to the graduates in the station drill hall.

"What you are training for now is to fight the enemy of the whole world. He is an enemy who has no respect for truth and fair play as you men and your officers have and none of the scruples that you and I respect.

"I trust that you will always bring honor to the wings, as did Bishop, Barker, Collishaw and other airmen have done. I wish you all the best of luck and hope you will bring honor to this station, its corps and your instructors, with the wings you are to receive today."

Course members then stepped forward as the station adjutant read their names. Group Captain McGill shook the hand of each graduate, after which the graduate saluted his superior officer before group Captain McGill pinned wings on the left breast of their tunic.

Following the ceremony, the graduates marched past Group Captain McGill as he took the salute at the presentation table.

RCAF: (J/3521) John Norman Paterson - FI 11 SF - 421 Sqn., Ft. William; +(J/3522 - R/66038) Ralph Ervin McLeod, KIFA - Niagara Falls; (J/3523) Donald Savigny Paterson - DFC 57/630 Sqns., Ft. William - brother also on course.

+(R/61620) Frederick Byron Ray - KIFA 4 SFTS, Rapid City, South Dakota; W.M. Johnson, Ottawa; (J/12687) George Elmer Kennedy Cohoe; +(J/10956) James Albert Robertson - 412 Sqn., London, Ont.

RAF: Graduates from England, Scotland and Wales

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No. 1 EFTS Malton: 23 RAF students

No. 2 EFTS Ft. William (Co. 4): 20 students Paterson, Cohoe, Ray, McLeod

Co. 9 Intermediate Training: Oct. 21 - Dec. 7, 1940

Awarded pilot's flying badge December 10.

Co. 9 Advanced Training: Dec. 9 - Dec. 29, 40

Course 13: November 18, 1940 - January 24, 1941 - E&F Flights

First intake under amalgamation of ATS and ITS.

Group Captain Frank McGill addressed the graduates and presented their pilot wings in the station drill hall at 1430 hours. One by one, the airmen stepped forward, saluted and had their pilot's flying badge pinned on their tunics by Group Captain McGill. He told the 54 graduates to avoid low flying, showing off over towns or girls' houses and aerobatics.

"I hope if you are posted overseas that you will benefit by the training you have received from your instructors.

"You will be fighting against unscrupulous opponents, deviod of any idea of fair play or sense of sportsmanship.

"Shoot the dirty dogs down."

+(J/3739 - R/53846) Frank Kerr Orme - 21 Sqn. Rotterdam Aug. 28, 41, Ottawa; (J/3740) Joseph Flavelle Barrett - AFC, Toronto; (J/3741) Anthony Wreford Gubb - DFC 69 Sqn. Malta, Montreal.; +(J/3742 - R/69537) Thomas Mackintosh Couper - KIFA 12 OTU, Toronto; (J/3743) W.R. Gibson; (J/3744) Kenneth Harold Anthony - PoW - 403 Sqn., Toronto; (J/3745) Joel Walkden Aldred - DFC - 431 Sqn., Port Perry - his brother William graduated at Uplands as well and was KIA with 431 Sqn.; +(J/3746 - R/59365) Ronald Bertram Campbell - KIFA OTU June 15, 41, Winnipeg; +(J/3747 - R/56109) Arthur George Hermitage - 419 Sqn., Montreal; +(J/3748 - R/69688) Frederick Hill Beemer - 149 Sqn., Toronto; +(J/3749 - R/69537) Arthur Climie MacDonald - (KIFA FI 1 SF Dec. 12, 41), Toronto; +(J/3750 - R/69638) Douglas Morrison Waldon - 403 Sqn., Toronto; (J/3751) Walter William Gilmour - AFC 1 SF, Toronto; (J/3752) William Alfred Hasenpflug - AFC 1 SF, Barrie

(J/15011) Reade Franklin Tilley - DFC; +Harry Nichols Dawson (KIFA); +(R/69632) George Allan Bye - 139 Sqn., Toronto; +(J/15371 - R/64404) Elvin Newton Cluderay - 56 Sqn., Fonthill; Lloyd Gerald 'Gerry' Cornish; Kendal, Ont.; (R/56105 - J/15585) Clarence Ronald Emberg - 402 Sqn., 175 Sqn. Dieppe DFC, 276 Sqn., Montreal; G.N. Fitzgerald, Toronto; +(C/13460 - R/64359) Seth James Flannery - 404 Sqn., Fergus; +(J/15217 - R/69693) Roy Barrington Keedwell - died from burns 258 Sqn. Palembang, Sumatra Feb. 10, 1942, Toronto; +(R/69660 - J/8814) Arthur Raymond Kirby - KIFA 55 OTU Dec. 30, 41, Toronto; (J/15104) Joseph Porter McCarthy - DFC 148 Sqn., Toronto; +(R/66040) Donald McLean - 12 OTU, Niagara Falls; W. Milligan, Toronto; E.A. Roberts, Paris; (J/15119) John Earle "Jack" Swingler - DFC - 218/38 Sqn. Malta, Pt. Arthur, Ont.; (R/69633) Kenneth R. Wainright - 77 Sqn., Toronto; +(R/56185) Louis Goldberg - KIFA 53 OTU, Montreal; (J/38649) Brian Gilmore Hodgkinson - POW 401 Sqn., Winnipeg; +(R/58165 - J/15005) James Henry Whalen - 411/129/30/17/261 Sqns., DFC 34 Sqn., Vancouver; (J/14003) Douglas Ross Drummond; (J/38649) Brian Gilmore 'Hodge' Hodgkinson - PoW 401 Sqn., Winnipeg; +(R63992) Gerald Clark Hughes - KIFA 3 WS, Regina

McLean and Couper killed in flying accident in Wellington P9300 at 12 OTU April 18, 1941

January 17, 1941: (R/53904) Leading Aircraftman Joseph Raymond Stuart (Earl) Dority and (R/59332) Leading Aircraftman Harry Nichols Dawson were killed in a flying accident

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No. 1 EFTS Malton (Co. 6): 17 students. Beemer, Barrett, Gubb, MacDonald, Hasenpflug, Gilmour, Bye, Keedwell, Kirby, Waldon, Hughes

No. 2 EFTS, Ft. William (Co. 6): 11 students. Campbell, Aldred, Tilley, Dority, Cluderay, Swingler, Goldberg, Whelan

No. 4 EFTS Windsor Mills, Que. (Co. 3): Emberg, Orme, Couper, Hermitage, Flannery

Course 15: December 12, 1940 - February 10, 1941

Wins Parade was held at 1630 hours. Group Captain Frank McGill pinned the wings and addressed the 44 graduates.

"Your will-to-work is what goes into a British victory. Your will-to-win is the spirit which reaching the enemy will bring his defeat - and he will quit - quit like any yellow dog.

"The enemy with bombing of defenceless people had already proved to be cowards. An enemy of that mentality can't stand up to it and will quit when realizing the spirit of you men.

"You have done very well in your flying. You have observed the creed of 'Play up and play the game.' I congratulate you and I am proud of you."

(J/4106) Russell Cowans - DFC 426 Sqn., Montreal; (J/4107) Gerald Griffith Oakes James - 415 Sqn.; +(J/4108) John Askey Quick - 77 Sqn., Squamish, B.C.; (J/4109) John Barry Sparling (AFC), +(J/4110) Hugh James 'Jim' Cooper - 19 OTU, Toronto - his brother John KIA 7 Sqn.; +(J/4111) Andrew Arthur Stephen - 615 Sqn., Toronto; +(J/4112) John Grant Scott - 142 Sqn., Mascouche, Que.; +(J/4113) Joseph Francois Yves Albert Boulanger - 615 Sqn., Lachine, Que.; (J/4114) John 'Hubert' Hall - PoW 142 Sqn., Summerside, P.E.I.; (J/4115) John Douglas Lamb - DFC 357 Sqn., Vancouver; +(J/4116) Arnold Walter Roseland - 442 Sqn., Okotoks, Alberta; (J/4117) Robert Edward Porter (AFC)

(R/59591 - J/15016) Gilmore Cecil Daniel - PoW 71 Sqn.; +(R/54228 - J/15100) Lawrence Robert Maguire – 8 Sqn.; (R/54188) Joseph Guillaume Laurent 'Larry' Robillard - DFM 145 Sqn., +( R/54178) George Barry 'Don' Smith – 9 Sqn., Ottawa; L.B. Devine; (J/17790) T. Leo Mansfield; +(R/69892) John Murray Nickleson – 18 Sqn.; D.M. Jenkins, J.W. Wilkins, +(R/68123) Samuel Edgar Rowed – 78 Sqn., London, Ont.; (J/16648) H.F. Baker; +(R/60905) James Stanley Martin, Edmonton; +(R/62234) Melvin Caspar Tagseth - 59 OTU, Middle Lake, Sask.; (J/15554) William Irvine Gould, Fredericton, N.B.; J.R. Smith, (J/11555) William Selfridge Day - DFC 90 Sqn., Aylesford, N.S.;+( J/12697) James Kenneth Ramsay – 435 Sqn.; J. Sorley, +(R/69879) Andrew Roland Rennie - 53 OTU, Keene, Ont.; (J/23029) Richard Holtby Pattison – DFC & Bar 109 Sqn., Toronto; +(R/66040) Donald McLean - 12 OTU, Niagara Falls

RAF: (100626) Percy Belgrave 'Laddie' Lucas - CBE, DSO, DFC 66/249 Sqns.; +(64287) Herbert Frank Bickerdike - DFC 462 Sqn. KIA 77 Sqn., Rio de Janeiro

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No. 1 EFTS Malton (Co. 9): 16 RCAF students. Sparling, Day, Cowans, Rowed, Daniel

No. 11 EFTS: 13 RAF students and 9 RCAF - Lamb, Porter

No. 12 EFTS: 4 RCAF students. Robillard, Cooper, Pattison

Air Minister C.G. 'Chubby' Power paid high tribute to Group Captain McGill and his instructional staff for their effort to complete the course on time despite bad weather.

"Our weather in November and December at Uplands as at many other training schools across Canada was poor for flying, due to fog and rain.

"Training plan students are supposed to have 50 hours flying time every 24 days, while school instructors are supposed to fly only 70 hours a month giving instruction to the students.

"Making use of the fine weather we have had in January, Group Captain McGill and his instructional staff have been flying as high as 110 to 115 hours a month to make up the delay experienced in November and December.

"They have been working wonderfully hard, and they graduated their class the other day, right on the dot. They deserve great credit."

Course 17: January 4 - March 17, 1941

Wings Parade at 1330 hours. Group Captain Frank McGill presented wings and addressed the 47 graduates.

"The army, navy and air force all have an equal job to do in winning the war and no service alone will achieve the victory."

(J/4554) Douglas Bruce Annan - DFC 418 Sqn., AFC 13 SFTS, Hamilton; +(J/4555) Lyn Bertram Madden - 403 Sqn., St. Laurent; +(J/4556) John Wylie Wood, Shawness, Alberta; (J/4557) Cyril Victor Mark - AFC 2 FIS, (J/4558) George L. Sprague, Ottawa (FI 2 SF); (J/4559) John 'Jack' Robertson, Hammond, Indiana; +(J/4560) Arthur Williams – 74 Sqn., Vancouver; (J/4561) Roderick Illingsworth Alpine Smith - DFC & Bar - 126 Sqn. Malta; (J/4562) John Eric Hockey - PoW 434 Sqn.; +(J/4563) George Ketchen Graham - 418 Sqn., Belleville; (J/4564 - R/67719) John Duffey Marsh - 611 Sqn., Ft. William; (J/4565) M.A.C. Smith (FI 11 SF); +(J/4566) Warren Ainsley Roberts - 405 Sqn.; (J/4567) James Weir Clarke - 161 Sqn., Moose Jaw; (J/4568) J.C. Marshall, Montreal

+(J/13996) Arnold Ridgway, Outermont; (J/13998) J.G.K. Barrie, Edmonton

(R/60421) Robert Clarence Pearson - FI 15 SFTS; (R/60522) Louis Rolston Babb, (R/74146) Robert Kennedy Storie, John 'Jack' Robertson, Hammond, Indiana; Arthur Pratt Harrison, Owen Sound; (R/71258) Francis (Hugh) Belcher - 403 Sqn. PoW, Roblin, Manitoba; Charles F. 'Chuck' McLean - 249 Sqn. Malta, Brockville; Harold Clinton Charlesworth - 12/601/443 Sqns., Chemainus, B.C., +(R/74596 - J/15097) Thomas Douglas Holden - 411 Sqn., Chilliwack, B.C.; Charles A. Rainsforth - 198 Sqn., Edmonton; (J/18793) Michael Rico Sharun - DFC 416 Sqn., St. Paul, Alberta; James Weir Clark, Hezenmore, Alberta; +(R/54314) William George Pavely – 615 Sqn., Ottawa; +(R/68180) Raymond George Smith - KIFA 412 Sqn., Chatham; James Cartwright Uniacke Bayly - 402 Sqn. Dieppe, Toronto; E. Heid, Toronto; (J/21550) Herbert Hugh 'Bert' Hinton, Acton; J.W. Munro, Madoc; +(R72411 - J/13467) William Robert Widdess - 198 Sqn., Peterborough; (R77007 - J/15970) William Frank Kenwood - 411 Sqn., PoW 92 Sqn., Westmount, Que.; +(J/23021) Walter Gerard O’Hagan - 402 Sqn., Montreal; M.A.C. Smith, Rougemont Station; (J/15056) Richard Attwill Ellis - DFC 412 Sqn. Dieppe, Montreal West; (R/74035) Joseph Bernard Marius Vilandre - PoW 111 Sqn., Montreal; (J/29765) Robert Sayles Bowker, Granby - brother Harlow KIA; (J/21668) Bernard Bryce Miller - DFC 428 Sqn., Carman, Manitoba; +(R/72155) Edward Oliver Grimsdick - 152 Sqn. shot down by British Navy, Winnipeg

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No. 1 EFTS Malton (Co. 9): 28 RCAF students. Annan, Clarke, Ellis; R.G. Smith

No. 2 EFTS Ft. William (Co. 13): 16 RCAF students. Mark, R.I.A. Smith, Grimsdick, Widdes

Course 19: January 28 - April 10, 1941

Wings Parade held at 1400 hours. Group Captain Frank McGill, officer commanding Uplands, addressed the 63 graduates.

“Remember the enemy you go to fight has no spirit of fair play. He is a coward and a beast who bombs women and children, churches and hospitals without discrimination.

"He will take advantage of every despicable treachery to try to trick you into a position where you’ll be prey for him. I hope you don’t let him. Stick on his tail every time.

"No matter where you go you can't let down or the whole system will be affected."

"My heart started to beat mighty fast," stated Gordon McClusky, when his name was called out and he stepped forward to receive his wings from Group Captain McGill. While training at Uplands, McClusky, Philbin and Lowther played for the RCAF team in the city league.

(J/5022) George Clinton Keefer - DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar 274/412 Sqns. (J/5023) Walter Allan Grenfell Conrad (DFC & Bar); (J/5024) William Grant McPherson, Toronto; (J/5025) Donald Robert Lush (PoW); (J/5026) Edward Baxter Tipton; +(J/5027 - R/71761) Frank Howie Sutton; (J/5028) Ian Campbell Ormston - DFC; +(J/5029) Creighton Carlisle Lowther; (J/5030) Frederick Winston Roemmele, Windsor; (J/5031) Kovalinka; (J/5032) Joseph Michael Smith Crichton (PoW); (J/5033) William Warman Swinden - 213 Sqn. DAF; (J/5034) Donald Leslie Edy - PoW 33 Sqn.; (J/5035) Wallace Leroy Oughtred; (J/5036 - R56398) Clayton Keith Barrett – 432 Sqn. (FI 9 SF), Montreal; (J/5037) Heath Roy Hunter; +(J/5038) Henry Joseph Cleary – 602 Sqn., Cornwall; +(J/5039 - R/65337) Charles Lloyd MacDonald 129 Sqn., Antigonish, N.S.; (J/5040) Walter Lind; (J/5041) John Archibald Watson; +(J/5042) Thomas Clayton Patterson - 33 Sqn., Windsor; +(J/5043) John Sarto Gain – 274 Sqn.

Back row: 1. +(R/73192 - J/15122) Harold Albert O'Blenes - 131 Sqn. 4. J.A.D.R. Pelletier, St. Hyacinthe 6. +(R/69896) George Kenneth Proctor – 103 Sqn. 7. + (R/71726) George McClusky (402 Squadron) 9. Heath Hunter 15. +(J/5036) Clayton Keith Barrett – 432 Sqn. (FI 9 SF)

Second row: 1. (J/5032) Joseph Michael Smith Crichton (PoW) 3. (J/5028) Ian Campbell Ormston - DFC 4. R.H. Roberts, Toronto 5. +(J/15348) David Francis Rouleau – 131 Sqn. 7. (J/5023) Walter Allan Grenfell Conrad (DFC & Bar) 8. (J/5022) George Clinton Keefer - DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar 274/412 Sqns. 10. (J/5141) Melville Harrison Gifford – to Co. 21 (PoW) 11. Gill 12. +( R/54382) Marion Arthur Plomteaux - 53 OTU 13. William Warman Swinden, Montreal 14. (J/14000) James Atkins DFC – 429 Sqn. 15. W.G. McPherson, Toronto 16. +(J/5029) Creighton Carlisle Lowther 17. +(J/15112) John Neville Brookhouse – 412 Sqn. Dieppe 18. +(J/5039 - R/65337) Charles Lloyd MacDonald 129 Sqn., Antigonish, N.S.

Sitting: 2. (J/5026) Edward Baxter Tipton 3. +(J/5042) Thomas Clayton Patterson - 33 Sqn., Windsor 4. Scott Murray 5. Duperier 6. (R/71713) Richard Kenneth Trumley – 442 Sqn., Toronto 7. +(R/69028) Bernard Peter O'Neill - 402 Squadron, Timmins 8. Watson 9. +(R/66080) Wilbert George Yorke – 12 Sqn. 10. (J/5025) Donald Robert Lush (PoW) 11. +(J/5027 - R/71761) Frank Howie Sutton 12. +(J/15106) John Randolph Patton – 401 Sqn., Barrie 13. Knitting 14. +(J/5038) Henry Joseph Cleary – 602 Sqn., Cornwall

Kneeling: 2. (J/14023) Charles Stewart Buchanan – to Co. 21 3. (J/5034) Donald Leslie Edy - PoW 33 Sqn. 4. Doyle 5. Lenihan 6. +(R/71684) John Lewis Mitchell – 411 Sqn. 7. +(J/5043) John Sarto Gain – 274 Sqn. 8. (J/13999) Gerald Bernard 'Jerry' Philbin DFC – 425 Sqn. 9. +(R/56406) Stephen Frederic Gannon – 405 Sqn. 11. +(R/71617) Joseph Miles Macdonell, Toronto 12. (R/71755) Eric Alfred Winkler (CT) – POW 419 Sqn.

Unidentified: Frederick Winston Roemmele, Windsor; W. Lind, St. Marys; George Allen Lee (AFC); +(R/71701) David Alexander Edward Bremner – KIFA 131 Sqn. (his brother Frank also killed during war with RCAF); Wallace Leroy Oughtred; +(J/15095) Norman Ralph Fowlow - DFC, 131/611/601 Malta/403/421/411 Sqns.; +(R/69654) Alexander Ian Murray - KIFA 409 Sqn., Simcoe, Ont.; +(R/70604 - J/15193) David Ray Florance

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No. 4 EFTS Windsor Mills (Co. 14): Lowther, Freeman

No. 11 EFTS Cap de la Madeline (Co. 15): Fowlow, Plomteaux, Barrett

No. 13 EFTS St. Eugene (Co. 14): Murray, Sutton, Florance, Bremner

Course 21: February 10 - April 18, 1941

Wings Parade held at 1330 hours. Group Captain McGill addressed the 48 graduates.

"In every team, no matter whether it be football or hockey, you will always find a dirty player. When you contact the enemy you will find the dirty Nazi gangsters will employ every foul trick to shoot you down.

"Be prepared to meet their tricks and beat them at their own game. Show them no mercy, for these are the fiends who bomb defenceless women and children. Your country will thank you for every one you shoot out of the sky.

"You are all athletes and you have been in training here preparing for a game with dirty opponents. You have been a team and worked with your coaches and managers. The opponent always looks big - but the bigger they are, the harder they fall. You are better trained; you are better men, and you have better equipment than those German gangsters on the opposing team. The world will thank you for each one of those savages who kill women and children that you obliterate."

+(J/5131 - R72158) Hugh Stinton Glassco - 418 Sqn.; +(J/5132 - R/71116) Robert McConnell Murchie - KIFA 409 Sqn., Winnipeg; (J/5133) John Forbes Knight - DFC 514 Sqn., North Bay; (J/5134) William Denness Reid, (FI 6 SF) Montreal; +(J/5135) John Patrick Anthony Sawyer - 207 Sqn., Nassau, Bahamas; +(J/5136 - R/72464) John Garfield Speir - 207 Sqn., Brussels, Ont.; +(J/5137) William Ralph McDunnough - 257 Sqn., (J/5138) Donald Alexander McDonald; (J/5139) William Kenneth Hutchison; +(J/5140 - R/71133) John Kenneth Roberts, Winnipeg; (J/5141) Melville Harrison Gifford - PoW 2 OTU, Sherbrooke; +(J/5142 - R/62932) Elbert Alonzo Murray - 410 Sqn., Stellarton, N.S.; (J/5143) John Harvey Wylie; +(J/5144) Arthur Eugene Miron - 245 Sqn., Sudbury; (J/5145) William Forbes Hardy; (J/5176) Grenville Harwood Temple

+(R/67153) William Dewey Hagyard - 401 Sqn., Perth; Charles Stewart Buchanan, London; Grenville Harwood Temple caterpillar pin, Ottawa; +(R/67722) Henry Archer 'Harry' Womack III - KIFA 57 OTU; +(R/67745) Hiram Aldine Putnam - 126 Sqn. Malta; Charles Edward McDonald - PoW 403 Sqn.; +(R/68488) Robert Matheson Murray - 411 Sqn.; John Durell McFarlane, +(R/74456) Noel McHenry Moore - 419 Sqn.; Harry Fairhurst Mather; K.W. Hutchison, St. Thomas; +(R/68489 - J/18751) Norman Wallace Peat - 412/129/277/283 Sqn. Malta, Bright; D.A. McDonald, St. Thomas; (J/14012) H.J.B. Lambe, (J/15071) Frederick Ernest Green - 412 Sqn. Dieppe DFC and J.A. MacLachlin, all of Toronto; +(R/72462) William Enoch Snell - 19 OTU, Honeywood; (R?68608) William Nicholas Tuele - 41/268 Sqns., Port Arthur; +(R/56280) Ian Ronald Aird Beaton - 57 OTU, Longueil; W.F. Hardy, De Beaujeu; R/70731 - J/15205) Oscar Mahaffy 'Ozzie' Linton - 603/249 Sqns. Malta - 421 Sqn. graduated with Course 23; (J/14020) Howard Lenly Spinney, (FI ( SF) Yarmouth, N.S.; Sean Hugh Dunn

One from Bahamas

March 13, 1941 - William D. Reid was given permission to take off from Syracuse Municipal Airport after making an "emergency landing". A deputy collector of customs, Thomas J. McCarthy, said he was satisfied Reid had nothing with him but clothing and maps and was out of gas. Reid said he became lost in "heavy weather" when he took off from Uplands, bound for Trenton.

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No. 3 EFTS Crumlin (Co. 16): Sawyer, Speir, Murray, Moore, Spinney

No. 6 EFTS Prince Albert (Co. 16): Knight, Murchie, Reid, Peat

No. 13 EFTS: Green

No. 14 EFTS (Co. 16): Linton, Putnam, Womack, Dunn, Glassco

April 21, 1941

Group Captain Wilfred A. Curtis takes over command of No. 2 SFTS, Uplands - switching positions with Group Captain McGill, who was posted to Curtis' former director of posting and records position at Air Force headquarters.

Group Captain McGill addressed the parade bidding farewell to Uplands and welcoming Group Captain Curtis.

"Turning out pilots is what we are here for, and we have done it as well as anyone can. I appreciate all you have done. We have kept ahead of schedule and we have turned out pilots who are as capable as any who have been trained in Canada.

"He (Curtis) has been itching to get out on a job like this. This is his opportunity and you will find that he will make the most of it."

Wings Parade for Course 23 was held at 1400 hours for 49 RAAF aircrew and 9 RCAF aircrew.

May 23, 1941 - Australian airmen at a "Wings Parade" ceremony at Uplands. Sir Clive Baillieu, noted Australian and Director General of the British Purchasing Commission in Washington, pinned the "Wings" on their tunics. Most of the men were from Melbourne.

Identified in the back row from left to right: +(400716) Victor William Johnstone - 458 Sqn.; (400273) Ronald Victor Flanagan - PoW 38 Sqn., DAF; +(400692)Raymond Thomas Brewin - 457 Sqn.; (400726) John Alexander McMillan; (400695) Edward Earnest Coate _DFC & Bar 252/227/272 Sqns. DAF 9 e/a destr.; +(400718) William Robert Kilpatrick - 245 Sqn. Dieppe - KIA 1943; (400738); Brian Snowball - 5/258 Sqns. and +(400604) William Kent Sloggatt - 104 Sqn.

Second row from left to right: (250854) John Rutherford Gordon - MC, recruiting officer; +(400689) Robert Wilson Baxter - George Medal 150 Sqn.; (400459) Kenneth Edward Collins; +(400746) Stanley Donald Wills - KIFA 153 Sqn.; (400691) John A'Beckett Penleigh 'Pat' Boyd - DFC & Bar 125/31 Sqns.; +(400687) Valden Leonard Bailey - 150 Sqn.; +(400736) Clifford Alan Stachwell - 30 Sqn. and +(400747) Alexander Philip Stepto Wood - 5 OTU

Front row from left to right: +(400694) John Callahan - KIFA 296 Sqn.; +(400733) Arthur Geoffrey Oxlade - 464 Sqn.; +(400725) Douglas Leslie McGregor; +(400744) George William Walters; +(400707) Mervyn Richards Roberts Green; +(400458) Alfred Henry Blake; (400508) William John Storey - 8 e/a destr. and (400739) Frederick Stanley Stevens - MID 3 e/a destr.

The (+) denotes that over half the course members did not survive the war.

Course members embarked at Sydney February 22, 1941 and disembarked in Canada March 16, 1941.

(AUS.400721) Douglas Mervyn Lord was killed in a flying accident while training at Uplands, May 6, 1941. Flying Instructor (C/4802) F/O Bennett Lorel Duffey was also killed.

9 RCAF: +(J/5443) Renaud Claudy du Pasquier; +(J5444 - R.70745) Jack Norrin Nelson - 431 Sqn., Tisdale, SK; (J/5445) Rowan Theodore 'Bob' Hutchinson - DFC 401/414 Sqns. Dieppe; R/70731 - J/15205) Oscar Mahaffy 'Ozzie' Linton - 603/249 Sqns. Malta - 421 Sqn.

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Also graduating that day was +(J/5443) Renaud Claudy du Pasquier, a champion skier in Switzerland. He was living in New Mexico at the time of his enlistment. Pilot Officer du Pasquier was killed December 29, 1941 while serving with No. 213 Squadron

Course 23 - March 20 - May 23, 1941

Leading Aircraftman William Ronald Cundy, Scone, N.S.W., receives his “wings” from Sir Clive Baillieu at Uplands. Left to Right: Hon. C.D. Howe, Canada’s Minister of Munitions and Supply, Group Captain Wilf Curtis, D.S.O., Commanding Officer at Uplands, Sir Clive Baillieu, Flying Officer M.C.L. Haig, Adjutant and Squadron Leader W.R. MacBrien, Chief Flying Instructor. Cundy is credited with 5.66 aerial victories and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Distinguished Flying Medal. (AWM)

Aussie Graduates

Front row L to R: +(404560) Bruce Francis Patrick Corbett – Thompson, Brisbane; +(402537) Clive Henry Phillips – 158 Sqn., Mosman; (404558) Kenneth Dudley Bassett, Karoala, Loma; +(404617) George Leslie Lachlan Hay; (404557) Dormer George Andrews - PoW 127 Sqn., Chelmer, Brisbane; D.H. Hannah, Tamworth Back row: +(404654) Frank Howard Mitchell, Redfern Sydney; S.I. Hansen, Toolburra; +(402724) Edward Hanlon Brown DFC 682 Sqn.; Upper Undulla Terra; Squadron Leader J.C. Gordon, M.C.; Sir Clive Baillieu; +(404565) Wallace George Lewis, Bardon Brisbane and +(404550) Robert Neville Lonergan

L to R: +(400637) Robert Lorraine Melville; +(400689) Robert Wilson Baxter, Albury; +(402724) Edward Hanlon Brown DFC 682 Sqn.; (402804) Milton Jeffrey Moore, Taree; (402732) William Ronald Cundy, Scone; D. McKenzie, Bondi; E.E. Green, Clarence River; Squadron Leader Gordon, M.C.; +(402821) Archie Thomas Little; Sir Clive Baillieu; E.I. Bloomfield, Manly; G.F. Coombes, Lavender Bay; +(402821) Robert Barnsley Smith DFC 105 Sqn., Bowral; +(402798) David Kilgour Lloyd; +(402813) Leonard David Watson, Casino; +(404555) Gordon Sweeney DFC 105 Sqn., Dorrigo and +(404648) William Walter Blessing – DSO, DFC 105 Sqn., Braidwood

Course 25: April 6 - June 16, 1941

Group Captain Wilf Curtis presented wings to the graduates.

46 RCAF

(J/5810) George Henry Uniacke Bayly - DFC 413 Sqn., Toronto; (J/5811) E.L. Butler, Edmonton; (J/5812) John Douglas Hopkins - DFC 113 Sqn., Orangeville; (J/5813) Stephen Joseph Bertling, (J/5814) Norman Scarlett Baldwin (AFC); +(J/5815) John Norden Godfrey - 415 Sqn.; +(J/5816) John Ronald Coleman - 411 Sqn.; (J/5817) D.L. Price, Victoria (FI 11 SF); +(J/5818 - R/56282) Hugh Russel - 416 Sqn. Dieppe, KIA 443 Sqn., Westmount, Que.; (J/5819) Clarence Charles Collins - DFC 427 Sqn., Calgary; (J/5820 - R/60573) Frederick Howard Sproule - DFC 42 Sqn., Vancouver; +(J/5821) Robert Frank Fisher - 10 BR, Armstrong, B.C. - his brother William John Fisher was also in October 1943; +(J/5822 - R/78545) Gerald Boyd Edmonds - (FI 8 SF) 433 Sqn., Stratford; +(J/5823) John Gillespie Magee, (J/5824) Claiborne Frank Gallicher

Robert Daniel Shuman (POW), +Ober Nathaniel Leatherman, Arthur Bernard Cleaveland, Curtis Gilman Johnston, Richard Reed, Arthur Carl Young, Gordon Kerle Palin - PoW Japan, Montreal; +(J/15233) James Patrick Coyne - DFC 263 Sqn., God's Lake, Manitoba; (R/71409) John William Kinahan - PoW Japan, Winnipeg; +(R/72059 - J/16120) Neil Duncan Mara, DFC - 433 Sqn., (J/16758 - R/78547) Leonard Frederick Cuddington - DFC - 61 Sqn. (CT); (J/15672) John Kenneth Larden - 421 Sqn., North Bay; +(R/78092) Donald Alexander Court - 411 Sqn., Weston; +(R/78091) Robert Walters Gardner - 401 Sqn., Toronto; +(R/78109) James Andrew Long - 144 Sqn., Toronto; +(J/15338) Stewart William Pearce - 412 Sqn. Dieppe, Toronto; Wallace Bruce Randall - 411 Sqn., Toronto; D.J. Sinclair, Toronto; H.V. Thompson - 412 Sqn. Dieppe, Toronto; +(J/15063) Thomas Ritchie Clarke Adams - 152 Sqn., Toronto; +(J/14041 - R/78094) Harold Hastings Davison, Welland; Thomas Morley Gain, Toronto; +(J/16120) Neil Duncan Mara DFC 433 Sqn., Toronto; Daniel Erskine McIvor, Ft. William; +(R/77265) James McCallum - 415 Sqn., Montreal; (R/62937) Glenn Rowland Graham - 412/41 Sqns., Debert, N.S.; +(R/74780) Maurice Crosby Cuthbert, Vancouver; (R/58474) Guy Duncan Fowler, Ladner, B.C.; (J/23039) H.C. Hicks, Edmonton; +(J/15111 - R/60586) Donald Ross Gill - 263 Sqn., Cranbrook, B.C.; +(R/74748) George Frederick Parker, Victoria, B.C.; D.L. Price, Victoria; R.W. Gardiner, Toronto

5 RAF: T.A. Sassoon, Becley, Kent, England; T. Russell, Ireland, brother of Dalzell

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No. 1 EFTS Malton: Bayly, Baldwin, Randall

No. 2 EFTS Ft. William: McIvor

No. 7 EFTS Windsor (Co. 10?): Parker, Cleaveland, Shuman, Reed

No. 9 EFTS St. Catharines (Co. 19): Gain, Davison, Coleman, Magee

No. 10 EFTS Mt. Hope: Young

No. 12 EFTS Goderich (Co. 21): Godfrey, Thompson, Baldwin, Edmonds, Munro, Reid, Kinahan

Squadron Leader Charles Wilmot wrote the following assessment of Magee.

"An above average pilot - almost exceptional in aerobatics, somewhat weak in precautionary landings."

The chief ground instructor's comments about Magee weren't so flattering.

"Average student but keen. Not over popular with fellow classmates."

+(R/74211) John Wellesley Munro, London, Ontario and +(R/72122) Robert Bruce Reid, Drayton, Ontario, were killed in flying accidents while training at Uplands.

April 29, 1941: +(R/78573) Vernon Arthur Blake, London, Ontario, killed in flying accident near Tweed during cross-country flight. Harvard 2510 - flew into top of hill turned over and burned.

April 23, 1941: Cuddington ceased training

Course 27: April 10 - July 11, 1941

Group Captain Curtis presented wings and addressed the 52 graduates.

"From your showing here I know you will always give a good account of yourselves. I always want you to feel that Uplands is your home. This is an important occasion in your lives to date. From now on you will start to give your place in the line, too, fighting against Hitler."

(J/6226) John Allan "Ben" Boyle (AFC) (POW), Windsor; (J/6227) William Owen Brown; +(R/51385 - J/6228) Richard Chilrose Lawrence - 81/127 Sqns.; (J/6229) Frederick Cecil Jones, Crediton and Toronto; +(J/6230) Alphonse Leon Dudley St. Aubin - 261 Sqn., Stoney Point; +(J/6231) Mark Fairweather Gibson, Kelowna, B.C.; (J/6232) Jack McIntosh Pow, Tillsonburg; (J/6233) Hardy Alford Peter Poyntz - DFC 571 Sqn., Montreal; (J/6234) Marvin Roy Haskins, +(J/6235) Edward Arthur Smith - 156 Sqn., Prince Rupert, B.C.; (J/6236) Lawrence James Hayward, +(J/6237) Kenneth Allan Buckley - 257 Sqn., MacGregor, Manitoba; (J/6238 - R/77243) Oliver Francis Keller

(R/58697 - J/15344) Albert Fremont Eckert - 131 Sqn., Dieppe 185 Sqn. Malta, Sandpoint, Idaho; (R/67732) James Vincent Elliott, (R/78489) Leonard Johnson, +(R67969 - J/15490) Harold Leroy Spangler - KIFA 14 OTU; Peter John Scott, +(R/85860) James Hamilton Ballantyne - DFM 229 Sqn. Malta; +(R/75630) Colin Homer 'Tim' Smith - 3 Sqn. Burlington; Robert W. Bates - 607 Sqn. Burma, Hamilton; K.E. Kendall, Hamilton; A. Cooper, Hamilton; Hugh J.L. Merritt - 401 Sqn., Smithville; +(R/76681 - J/16571) William Wood Lindsay Brown - 80/441 Sqns., Edmonton; +(R82236 - J/15622) Charles Robertson Olmsted - 403 Sqn. Dieppe, Ottawa (KIFA 1 OTU 1944 had part in Captains of the Clouds); J.D. Brady; +(R/78610) Earl Herbert Ruppel - 1 Sqn., Waterloo; +(R/62987 - J/15375) John Trent Wills - 43 Sqn. Dieppe, St. John, N.B.; (J/16309) Charles Stewart Pope - 1st tour 145/401/411/ Sqns., 2nd tour DFC 429 Sqn., Stratford; Charles Gordon Baskerville, Simcoe; (R/78210) William Owen Brown, Hamilton; +(R/74223) John Allan Ryerson Turner - KIFA 43 Sqn., Ottawa; (J/18659) William John Wark, Renfrew; Allen R. Turner; Karl Kenneth Brown Gildner - 87 Sqn. (Dieppe), 430 Sqn., Carson, Ont.; +(R77064 - J/14056) Frederick George Johnson - FI 13 SF KIFA 60 OTU, Montreal; (J/15654) Norman Alexander Keene - DFC 411 Sqn., White Rock, B.C.; (J/16522) Gordon Alexander McLean Bryenton, Swift Arrow, Sask.; (J/17907) Arthur Gaston Brunet - DFC 137 Sqn., St. Thomas, Ont.; (R/65427 - J/15277) Edward Reid 'Ted' Burrows - 416 Sqn. Dieppe 152/402 Sqns.; George S. Reid, Bala; Charles John 'Chuck' Webster, Harrow; Edgar F. Horton, Peterborough; (R/80799) Clifford Herbert Marcus

12 RAF: (104419) Alexander Victor Nisbett, (104420) Hon. Wentworth Hubert Charles Beaumont (POW), +(104421) Frank Richard Clarke - 234 Sqn., (104422) Alan Maurice Hale, (104423) Michael Henry 'Pancho' Le Bas - 601 Sqn. Malta

2 South Americans; (104423) Michael Henry 'Pancho' Le Bas - 601 Sqn. Malta; (111997) Ian Adamson - 136 Sqn.

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No. 1 EFTS Malton (Co. 25): Ballantyne, Olmsted

No. 3 EFTS Crumlin (Co. 20): Pope, Boyle, Jones, Brunet, Burrows; F.G. Johnson

No. 7 EFTS, Windsor (Co. 18): Haskins, Eckert, Keller, Elliott, Aubin, Gildner, Poyntz, Wark, Bryenton, Smith, Keene, Lawrence, Spangler

No. 10 EFTS: Brown

No. 11 EFTS Cap de la Madeleine (Co. 19): Wills

Course 29: May 16 - August 7, 1941

Group Captain Wilf A. Curtis addressed the graduates before presenting them with their wings.

"You will soon be going overseas and meeting the enemy. The other man is no better than you. He has no better equipment and not as good as you have.

"The best of luck from Uplands to you all."

(J/6820) Edward Martin Norris, (TCA) Kingston; (J/6821) Thomas Harvey Hoare – FI 13 SF, DFC 56 Sqn.; (J/6822) Robert Walter Shepherd; +(J/6823) William Thomas Johnstone – 416 Sqn. Dieppe, KIA 411 Sqn. 1943; (J/6824) Herbert Elwyn Addington; (J/6825) James Desmond Brady, Woodroffe; +(J/6826 - R60625) John Stanbridge Bird – 2 PRU, Banff, AB; (J/6827) Ivor Campbell Beckwith – DFC 432 Sqn.; (J/6828) Hugh John Lynch Merritt; +(J/6829) Frederick Charles Lord - 434 Sqn., Toronto; (R/66327 - J/6830) Phillip Warren Graham, (J/6831) Pierre Lecoq/Peter Logan, (J/6832 - R/83076) Joseph Robert Owen – DFC 680 Sqn., (J/6833) Junius Lyman Edward Hokan – 610 Sqn. Dieppe, KIA 401 Sqn.; +(J/6834) William Gordon McRae – 354 Sqn.; (J/6835) Donald William McLarty – 33 Sqn.; (J/6836) Peter John Scott, Winnipeg; (J/6837) James Archibald Firth

(R/77295) William Eber Stewart (DFM), +(R/85860 - J/16085) James Hamilton Ballantyne - 222 Sqn., 229/603 Sqns. Malta, DFM, KIA 403 Sqn. 1944, Toronto; +(R/75630) Colin Homer Smith - 3 Sqn., Burlington; J.W. Koch, Harris, Sask.; (J/86073) F.N. McGillvray, Saskatoon, +(J/15622) Charles Robertson Olmsted, Peter John Scott, Winnipeg; (R/62817) Robert? F. MacDermid, Kingston; Arthur John 'Jack' Moul - 416 Sqn. PoW Great Escape; (J/14062) Arthur Frederick Badland - (FI 1 SF), Roche's Point; Robert W. Bates - 607 Sqn., Hamilton; Kenneth Bendall - 54/6 Sqns., Hamilton; (J/16290) William Harry Reid - DFC 43/247/175 Sqns., Toronto; +(R/80806 - J/18928) William John Bentley - 152/65 Sqn. Dieppe/249 Sqn. Malta/443 Sqn., Willowdale; A. Cooper, Hamilton; Hugh J.L. Merritt - 401 Sqn., Smithville; +(R/69243) Stanley Gilbert Napier - 412 Sqn., Capreol; +(R/66338) Harold James Robinson - 87 Sqn., St. Catharines; +(R/78610) Earl Herbert Ruppel - 1 Sqn., Waterloo; (J/16548) George Wallace 'Wally' Rutherford - 92/112 Sqns., Campbellford; W.L. Seitz, Toronto; D.H. Wigston - 94 Sqn., North Bay; (J/15246) Robert Andrew Buckham - 416 Sqn. Dieppe; (J/23024) Thomas Wallnutt - AFC; +(R/83059) Bricker Wilson Forman - 175 Sqn., Windsor; W.W.L. Brown, Edmonton; G.S.G. Denancrede, Calgary; W.D. Gwynne, Edmonton; W.T. Johnston, Calgary

Three from Argentina - McLarty, Beckwith

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No. 1 EFTS Malton; Ballantyne, Wallnutt

No. 9 EFTS St. Catharines (Co. 24): Moul, Hoare, Forman

No. 10 EFTS Mt. Hope (Co. 24): Buckham, Wigston, Bentley, Bird

July 16, 1941: No flying as Director Michael Curtiz began filming. Using a background of Harvard aircraft, students of Course 29 and a considerable portion of No. 1 Squadron took part in a representation of a Wings Parade in the course of which Air Marshal Bishop, presenting the Wings, made an address, all for the movies.

Course 31 Aussie Graduates September 1, 1941

L to R Front Row: +(403092) Robert George Kenyon Holden - 12 Sqn., Delungra; (403446) George James Meldrum, Chatham Taree; R.V. Baxter, Sydney; +(402822) Frederick George Potter; (403345) Peter Booth-Jones DFC 118//75/76 Sqns., Lindfield; R. Armstrong, West Tamworth; +(403149) Frederick Joseph Ryan - 3 Sqn., Hamilton Back Row: +(403143) Rodger Bede Murphy - 23 OTU; +(403159) Allenby Leslie Baker - 452 Sqn.; A. A. Waddell, Manley; +(403355) Rex Joseph Marre - 3 Sqn.; (403358) Ian Sutherland Morse - 457 Sqn.; +(403437) Jack Irvine Thompson - 14 Sqn., Bexley; L.K. Day, Sydney; (403127) Colin Thompson Doudy, Tamworth; +(403431) Finlay Donald McLeod - 12 Sqn., Newcastle; (403299) Colin Albert Alt - PoW 12 Sqn., Sydney

Course 31: June 21 - September 1, 1941

RAAF personnel Embarked at Sydney May 20, 1941. Disembarked Vancouver, Canada June 13. Commenced training at Uplands June 17.

Wings Parade held in the Drill Hall at 1400 hours. Group Captain J.L.A. deNiverville, officer commanding the school addressed the group before presenting the 'wings' to 56 RAAF graduates.

"This ceremony is more significant than any other, for it exemplifies in a practical way the close bonds of unity which exist between the various parts of the Empire.

"We have valued your friendship and believe that your presence here has helped cement still more strongly the ties between us. But before all, this wings parade proclaims that we are not just separate nations working together. We are a unit - one people with one enterprise, one victory.

"You have set for yourselves two objectives. The first is to qualify as pilots. The second is to do your part in the greatest struggle the world has ever seen. You have obtained the first of these objectives. These wings will be the symbol that you have done so.

"Your instructors speak highly of your work and Course 31 will be recorded in the history of this training station as one of the top courses. It is one in which five members won special distinction, 21 distinguished passes and the balance an excellent average.

"We know you will be able to give a good account of yourselves, for you have the right stuff in you. We know you will do as your fathers did in 1914-18.

"Judging from the distinguished gathering I see here, I have no doubt that the many friends you have made among the population of Ottawa and elsewhere will have fond memories of you and follow your progress overseas with the greatest interest.

"I have been authorized to say that. Commencing within the next few months, the policy will be to release a proportion of flying instructors for overseas service month by month.

"So to all instructors of this station I would say: 'Be patient, carry on the good work. In due course you too will have your heart's desire.' "

"They have worked faithfully and ungrudgingly, flying as many hours in a few months as a peacetime pilot would do in a year."

Leading the class was Paul C. J. Brickhill, aviation and defence writer of the Sydney Sun, and decendent of two generations of newspapermen.

+(406532) Alan Montgomery Lutz (DFC), (403313) Paul Chester Jerome Brickhill (POW - 92 Sqn.), +(407757) David Thomas Tucker, +(403159) Allenby Leslie Baker, (407744) Douglas Wills Sampson (DFC), +(403143) Rodger Bede Murphy, (403127) Colin Thompson Doudy, (404893) Howard Murdock Goulter; T.M. Thomas, Gordonvale; (404808) Lloyd Charles Deignan - DFC 467 Sqn., N.E. Watts, Southport; +(404819) Harold Edgar Dimmock, (404828) Roger Landsborough North; K.B. May - 457 Sqn., Rockampton; (404889) Arnold Kenneth Asboe, (404919) William Thorpe Hornby, +(404843) Allan Barton Watson, +(404842) John James Allen - 41 Sqn.; +(401252) John Harold Smithson (Dieppe - 616 Squadron) (DFC); (400895) Ian Horace Sydney Watson - PoW 92 Sqn., Mornington, Victoria; +(400221) Alexander Noel Glancy; +(403092) Robert George Kenyon Holden - 12 Sqn.; (403446) George James Meldrum, R.V. Baxter, Sydney; +(402822) Frederick George Potter, P.B. Jones, R. Armstrong, West Tamworth; +(403149) Frederick Joseph Ryan, +(403355) Rex Joseph Marre, (403358) Ian Sutherland Morse, +(403437) Jack Irvine Thompson - 14 Sqn., +(404924) Lawrence Keith Day, +(403431) Finlay Donald McLeod, C.A. Alt, +(403087) William Bedlington Knox Williams - 1435 Flight Malta; (403392) Alan Scholes Yates - 611/249 Sqns.; (403475) George Connon Watson O'Neil - DFC MM 450/451 Sqns.; +(403157) Collin Kenneth Tait - 602 Sqn.; Frederick Christopher 'Chris' Braund - 127 Sqn.; (403465) Neville Neil McKeough; +(403047) Rae Rees Frost - 12 Sqn.; +(403160) Raymond Arthur Brittingham - 460 Sqn.; A,B. Taylor, Point Piper; (403360) Vincent John McFarlane DFC; DFM 41/452/450 Sqn. 33 Sqn.; T.F. Clark, Chetwood; +(403472) Francis Walker 'Frank' Grosvenor - 118/76 Sqns. KIFA; (403471) Herbert Kenneth 'Ken' Barker - 457 Sqn.

Tasmania, known by Australians as "the pimple on the pumpkin," was represented by +(401083) Basil Frederick 'Fred' Wilmot of Launceston - later KIA 467 Sqn. and W. Waddell of Hobart.

Wilmot stated after the wings ceremony: "We're proud to represent the pimple, but we could do with a few more from the island. We need 'em among all these Aussies."

Prior to the wings parade the Australians held a wings graduation dinner at the Chateau Laurier. Sergeant Harold Edgar Dimmock, one of the graduates, addressed the invited guests with a toast to the RCAF.

"We really met the commanding officer and we owe the officers a devil of a lot. Only for them we would not be wearing what we are (wings). The ground staff did a particularly good job and put up with a lot. We have made some jolly good friends in Canada. We definately know the RCAF has contributed greatly to the feats in this war."

Dimmock was killed in action June 2, 1942 during operations to Essen.

August 15, 1941: At 0230 hours +(403352) Leading Aircraftman Harry William Long of Balgowlah, New South Wales, crashed in Harvard 2689 approximately 3 miles from the aerodrome shortly after taking off on night flying practice. He died at 0740 hours.

Course 33: July 3 - September 25, 1941

Embarked at Sydney June 13, 1941. Disembarked July 3, 1941.

Wing Commander MacBrien presented Wings.

56 RAAF graduates: +(403348) Noel Henry Knight-Brown, (403606) Edgar Trenchard Smith - 43 Sqn. Dieppe; +(403390) Malcolm Jack Ritchie, +(403564) John Keith Douglas; (402493) Robert Leopold Cunningham - 65 Sqn. Dieppe; (404939) Phillip Charles Miller - 616 Sqn. Dieppe; (405225) Doug Brown?; (403596) Lawrence 'Laurie' McIntosh DFC 111/ 122 Sqns.; (401081) Geoffrey Norman Jeff Reeve; (401068) Peter Stuart Isaacson DFC, AFC, DFM

Embarked Sydney Aug. 8, 41 for Vancouver aboard the M.V. Awatea

5 RCAF graduates: (C2046) S/L Burden

(C7) Group Captain Thomas Albert Lawrence presented wings to his son.

Course 35: August 8 - October 24, 1941

Air Commodore George Victor Walsh, air officer commanding No. 3 Training Command, Montreal, presented wings to the 45 graduates.

"There are probably some potential Bishops and Barkers among your numbers today. To all you I should like to offer this word of advice: If you can govern your conduct every day and every hour by what you consider to be the best interests of the service, you will find that the service will reciprocate. Certainly you will have more opportunity for the display of individual ingenuity and courage during the period of your service than in all the rest of your lives."

+(J/8347) David Garrett Burlingam (top in class) KIA 400 Sqn. Dieppe

(J/8348) Kenneth Todd Trow, (J/8349) David Copeland Maxwell; +(J/8350) Franklin Chace Downing, (J/8351) Peter Clarence Barron - AFC 168 Sqn., Hamilton; (J/8352) Alfred Gunnar Hamilton; +(J/8353) Walter Charles Cracknell - (FI 12 SF) 426 Sqn., (J/8354) Robert W. Lynch - 111 Sqn., St. Vital, Manitoba; (J/8355) Reginald Thomas Smith, Minnedosa, Manitoba; +(J/8356) James Garfield Gohl - 111/440 Sqns., (J/8357) John Mellen Ingalls 111 Sqn., (J/8358) John William Scrambler; +(J/8359) Merle William Atkinson - 76 Sqn., Hartney, Man.; +(J/8360) Reginald Bruce Harris, (J/8361) John Ralph Ford

Arthur Ferrand Nitz (DFM), Robert Mellinger, Raymond Ferman Jones, +William Philip Kelly, +Frank Robert Lennon, +(R/83419) William Jessop Harrell - 405 Sqn.; +John Joseph Paul Laffey, +James Arson Marshall, George Raines Carr, William Ramon Allen, +Donald Milton Bush, Thomas Hamill Prescott; +(R95372) Kenneth Frank Peters - 59 OTU, Oak River, Manitoba; S.A. Mulligan, Stratford; E.L.A. Robinson, Dryden; C.E. Ruth, Toronto; +(R/90517 - J/35985) Frank Richard Fisher Skelly - 111/438 Sqns., Kirkland Lake; +(J/28994) William Hugh Skelton, Guelph; A.W. Thomson, Willowdale; +(R/84219) John Watson Yost - 55 OTU, Hamilton, +(R/95175) Alfred Irvine, William Henry Fuller; +(R95259) John Burrows Waddell - 33 Sqn. DAF, Beausejour, Manitoba; +(R/85878 -J/28375 ) George Talbot Schwalm - 111/411/412 Sqns., Toronto; +(R/95331) Gordon Douglas Baird - 111 Sqn., Shoal Lake, Manitoba; (J29725) Gordon Robert Weber - 111 Sqn., Killarney, Manitoba; A.W. Cudmore, Crystal City, Manitoba; +(J/28385) Edwin Alexander Merkley - 111 Sqn./57 OTU, St. Vital, Manitoba

RAAF: +(403429) John Reginald Markey

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No. 2 EFTS Ft. William (Co. 31): Harrell, Waddell, Lynch

No. 3 EFTS Crumlin

No. 13 EFTS St. Eugene (Co. 31): Lennon

No. 19 EFTS Virden (Co. 30): Nitz

Course 37: September 2 - November 21, 1941

First group of New Zealand airmen to receive their wings at Uplands.

Wing Commander F.C. Seavill, a native New Zealander addressed the 61 graduates.

"You are the first batch of New Zealanders, but not the first Anzacs to pass through this school.

"This school sets a particularly high standard and your work, therefore, is all the more creditable. Since the inception of the Commonwealth Air Training Plan, New Zealand has been drawn closer to Canada. New Zealand is contributing a great deal towards the plan although it only has a population of a million and a half people.

"It is a mistaken opinion of the public that if large numbers of planes are produced and the training plan turns out the airmen to fly them that we should have a huge air force.

"The point overlooked, however, is that without an efficient ground crew there is little that the pilot can do. A pilot cannot take his aircraft out on operations if it is not in perfect working order.

"So you can realize the great amount of work the ground crew is called upon to do but when you are posted to your squadron you will realize it more. The ground crew takes a great pride in its work and you will do the same.

"I wish you every success, God-speed and good luck."

Wing Commander William MacBrien, officer commanding the station, congratulated the airmen on completion of their course. He then introduced Wing Commander Seavill, who pinned the wings on each graduate.

Leading Aircraftman (NZ412761) Lloyd Robert Stuchbery - later KIA, 489 Sqn. of Nelson, N.Z., graduated with the highest honors in the class.

Included in the group was a full-blooded Maori, Leading Aircraftman H.E. Metekingi, of Wanganui, N.Z. Another to graduate was Leading Aircraftman W.J. Higgins. A native of Kensington, P.E.I., he joined the air force in New Zealand where he was working.

44 RNZAF Graduates: (NZ412671) Roy Robert George Fisher; Pilkerton; J.S. Adams; (NZ412678) Charles Melvin Gibbs - DFC 267 Sqn. MiD (2)

2 RAAF: (402998) William Thomas Reid

15 RCAF: (J/8927) John Roderick Peardon 'Rod' Barr, Midland; (J/8928) Sidney Secord Mitchell; (J/8929) Chadwick Wilton 'Chad' Bennett, Kars; (J/8930) Welter Bascon Burgess; (J/8931) William Henry Fuller, Transcona, MB

S.T. Blondin, Ottawa; Joseph Michael Liston, Ottawa; L.V. MacDonald, Brockville; +(J/17440) Eric Philip Twiname - 39 Sqn., Russell, Ont.; T.A. or J.A. Johnston, Victoria; J.R. Symons, Vancouver; J.A.A. McIntyre, Montreal; Liston; Twinsane; Ray Trafford; Wilfred Migand; Boyer, Quebec; Lecours, Quebec; Marion, Quebec; Mitchell, Quebec; L.V. MacDonald, Brockville; +(J/17043) John Ritchie Symons - 419 Sqn., Vancouver

RAF: C.T.V. Page

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Ceased training: +(NZ411964) Robert Alan Francis Woods

Course 39: September 25 - December 19, 1941

Wings Parade held at 1400 hours.

the Hon. C.G. ‘Chubby’ Power, Minister of National Defence for Air, presented wings and addressed the 66 graduates:

"This wings parade has special significance. This week sees the opening of the last school provided under the plan and therefore the completion of the period of organization and construction. Looking back at the anxious and difficult days through which we have passed, we can say this plan is a success. We are now in the period of intensive production.

“When the announcement was made of the December 19, 1939 agreement bringing the plan into operation there were few who knew the implication of it. Now Canada knows it, Australia knows it and New Zealand knows it. I have had a cable from Sir Archibald Sinclair of the warmest congratulations, indicating that Britain knows it and one thing is sure and that is that Hitler knows it.

“The operational training units in Britain are filled with our graduates. The Canadian, the New Zealand, the Australian squadrons are in full active operation and the R.A.F. squadrons everywhere have in their ranks in the air flying over enemy territory every day, every hour, your comrades who have been through the same training schools as you.

“It is indeed significant that in this very class there are representatives of all the nations who are partners in the scheme and, in addition, representatives of our new partner in the greater job of work which confronts us – the United States.

“As this war has become a world-wide war, so this has become a world-wide plan. The head of your class comes from South America (117449 - Donald Iain Dewar), another comes from Belfast, and every province in Canada is represented.

“You come from wherever the cause of liberty is still worshipped. You go forth to fight for freedom. We in Canada, as well as our partners in the agreement, can promise you our fullest support, both now and in the future.

“You need no words of mine to encourage you. Your long period of preliminary training is over. You are ready for the supreme test of meeting the enemy. Your comrades who have gone before have met the test with courage, with heroism, worthy of the nations to which they belong. I know you will all be true to the glorious tradition they have established."

(1367678 - 117449) Donald Ian Dewar of Santiago, Chile was top in class

47 RCAF Graduates: +(J/9430) Donald Mathew Pieri - DFC 130/412/442 Sqns., +(J/9431) William James Irwin - 268 Sqn., Woodstock; (J/9432) John Coulton Ashburner; +(J/9433) Peter Bruce Lloyd Evans - 81 Sqn., +(J/9434) William Wallace Kennedy - 400 Sqn., Toronto; (J/9435) Kenneth William Sim - 245 Sqn., Toronto; (J/9436) Keith Irvin Ellson DFC 428 Sqn., +(J/9437) Edward Paul Howarth, Toronto; (J/9438) James MacLennan Reid; (J/9439) George Collier Draper; (J/9440) Guy Rene Porodeau; (J/9441) Francis Jenkins DFC 268 Sqn., North Bay; (J/9442) Harry James Clark; +(J/9443) Frazer Shaw; +(J/9444) Harold Edward Pittaway, London; (J/9448) Marvin Frederic Kamholz; (J/9449) John Henry Dempster; +(J/9450) Donald Roy Beardall - KIFA Trenton, Weston; (J/9451) Robert Gordon Brown, Toronto

Leon McFadden Blanding, Leo Joseph Armstrong POW 401 Sqn. Dieppe; +(R/83480) Harold Albert Bowman, Herbert Linder 'Grog' Smith, +(R/95652) John Joseph Matthews - 122 Sqn., +(R/98446) John Norman - 403 Sqn. Dieppe; (J/48231) John Forrest Coleson; (R90524 - J18676) Paul Hubert Roland Bernier - 440 Sqn., Sudbury; +(J/17673) Gordon Page Bray 411 Sqn. Dieppe- 1435 Sqn., Toronto; Albert Lloyd Breckels, Toronto; John Lindley Campbell, London; (R/84071) John Archibald Chapin - 401 Sqn. Dieppe, Brantford; Harry James Clark, Toronto; Jack Maxwell Clift - 415 Sqn., Toronto; John Forest Coleson, Billings Bridge; Norman Davis, Perth; Mark Gerald Donohue, Ottawa; +(J/85171) William Kennedy Ferguson - 401 Sqn., Peterborough; Robert Alexander Fraser, Smiths Falls; Reginald Sidney Gray - 243/111 Sqns., Toronto; Kenneth William 'Bill' Hawkins, Ingersoll; Gordon Edward Hutchinson, Norham; William Munroe Kruse, Galt; John Patrick Maloney - DAF, Hamilton; Guy Rene Perodeau, Ottawa; William John Sherman - 443 Sqn., Mansfield; Ronald Brownlee Stitt, London; John Anderson Martin 'Jack' Whitelaw - 442 Sqn., Toronto; Andrew Whyte, Toronto; +(R/93429) Jack Vincent Willbee - 261 Sqn., Zephyr; +(R/83471) Julius Lee Wyatt

17 RAF: +(121267) Gwynne Lewis Blackshaw, Thomas G. Winslow

1 RNZAF: (NZ412671) Robert Roy George Fisher

November 17, 1941: At approximately 1700 hours, Harvard 3020 crashed near Chrysler, resulting in the deaths of (R/93431) Leading Aircraftman Peter Alexander Tait, Fergus, Ontario, and (GB656197) R.D. Hiles. Tait's family sent a message to the graduates wishing their son's comrades-in-arms happy landings.

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No. 9 EFTS, St. Catharines (Co. 34): Pieri

No. 10 EFTS, Mt. Hope (Co. 34): Wyatt

No. 20 EFTS Oshawa: Gray

Course 41: October 25, 1941 - January 16, 1942

H.F. Gordon, assistant deputy minister of national defence for air addressed the 52 graduates.

"The Commonwealth Air Training Plan has grown from a trickle of pilots to a mighty torrent of air crews who will turn the tide of victory.

"Not until you have knocked the sting out of the four-legged swastika scorpion, not until the bedraggled Italian eagle has dropped back into the nest he has befouled, not until the yellow rising sun has sunk in ignominious oblivion, can you say with real assurance 'There'll Always Be an England.'"

+(J/10144) Francis Charles Martineau Jemmett - 69 Sqn., Kingston was top student in class.

(J/10145) Cecil Thomas Brown; (J/10146) William George Anglin; +(J/10147 - R/79416) Tom Montagu Falls, (J/10148) Donovan Becker Manifold, (J/10149) R.H. Regimbal - 36 Sqn.; +(J/10150) William Combrinck-Graham - (FI 5 SF); +(J/10151) William Manley Butler, J/10152 George Alfred Murray Thomas - 601 Sqn.; (J/10153) Robert Andrew Thomson, (J/10154) James Stemhouse Brydon - 90 Sqn.; +(J/10155 - R/98313) Justus Clifford Austin - 407 Sqn., Windsor; (J/10156) Ernest Bonar Lindsay; +(J/10157) Richard Alanson Bendwig, (J/10158) Avery Charles Dunning – POW, (J/10159) John William Patterson Draper - DFC 111 Sqn.

William George Anglin, Harold Thomas Cunningham, George Harvey Easton, (J/16784) Robert Marshall Buckham - PoW 428 Sqn., Ernest Lindsay, Joseph Augustine McDermott, (J/17401) Morris Frank ‘Pat’ Packard, Herbert Charles Ralston +(J/17079) Joseph Francois Xavier Gillies Berthiaume - 7 Sqn., Hawkesbury; Cecil Thomas Brown, Prescott; Gordon Francis Clark, Kingston; Francis Charles Jemmett, Kingston; William John Howe, Pembroke; Leslie Ernest Way, Picton; Malcolm Alexander, L'Orignal; Orville Franklin McLaren, Perth; Winston Carl Whitney, Prescott; Samuel Holden Johnston, Douglas; Clayton James Dalgleish, Hamilton; Lee Joseph Deschamps, Windsor; Stanley Melvin Grabb, Chesley; Donald Cameron McGregor, Sarnia; Gerald Mitchell Shoebottom, London; Edward George Splatt, Dunnville; Robert Andrew Thomson, Guelph; Avery Charles Dunning, Ottawa; Tilton Henney, Ottawa; John Harvey Johnston, Brinston; (J/10116) Frank Edward William Hanton, Kenora (13 SF); F.J. Grant, Pt. Arthur; J.H. Christopher, Calgary; J.J. McCann, Edmonton; +(R/92898) Clayton Robert Peacock - 683 Sqn., Lethbridge; J.S. Blackie, Edmonton; William H. Dutton, Winnipeg; (J/18284) Donald Wesley Rathwell - DFC 81/17 Sqns., St. Vital; K.W. Buehannon, Dauphin; R.C. Crowe, Hartney; +(R/106248) Louis Laurent Hamelin - 81 Sqn., St. Boniface; W.B. McKenzie, St. Vital; +(R/103062) Delbert Ellsworth McCool

November 16, 1941: (R/103057) Leading Aircraftman Wallace Richard Heath, of Lebanon, New Hampshire and (R/108379) LAC J.W. Anderson, killed in a flying accident.

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No. 3 EFTS Crumlin (Co. 37): Splatt, Thomson, Austin

No. 13 EFTS St. Eugene (Co. 37): McCool, Falls

No. 20 EFTS Oshawa

Some may have graduated from 13 SFTS

Course 43: November 24, 1941 - March 13, 1942

Wing Commander W.R. 'Bill' MacBrien, officer commanding the station, presented wings to the 65 graduates.

(J/10634) James Harland Gardiner, Oakville; (J/10635) George Alexander Garden Baxter; (J/10636) William Alexander Goodbrand; (J/10637) James Burt, Hamilton; (J/10638) Kenneth Macklem Langmuir; (J/10639) Edgar Lowry McKegney; (J/10640) Duncan Gordon Bell-Irving, (J/10641) Walter Roberts; +(J/10642) William Charles Hailstone - 458 Sqn.; (J/10643) William North Stowe - DFC 130 Sqn.; (J/10644) Harold James Reeves - DFC 408 Sqn.; (J/10645) James Walter Hammond - DFC 434 Sqn.; (J/10646) John Douglas Alexander; +(J/10647) Reginald Lionel Reddy Hepburn - 2 OTU; (J/10648 - R114603) George Carmon Frostad - 113 Sqn.; (J/10649) Herbert Alexander Ivens - 146 Sqn.; (J/10650) Bertram Fairbourn Hunter; (J/10651) Morton Phillip Jordan; (J/10652) Albert Barclay Newsome; (J/10653) William John Carman Pearson; (J/10654) Howard William Berg

F.H. Armstrong, Meaford; G.P. Beatty, Ft. William; James Lavender, Ft. William; Hal E. Derraugh, Toronto; K.M. Langmuir, Toronto; W.N. Stowe, Toronto; J.W. Gilmartin, Hamilton; W.A. Goodbrand, Hamilton; W.D. Gosling, Hamilton; +(J/88227) William Arthur Walker - 28 Sqn., Hamilton; +(J/26047) James Murdoch Clark - 58 Sqn., Peterborough; (J/25226) Edward Thomas Finch - DFC 408 Sqn., Brantford; W.R. Gillis, Fenlon Falls; K.C. Henry, Guelph; J.S. McGuire, Windsor; E.L. McKegney, Sarnia; O.F. McLaren, Perth; +(J/35422) Malcolm Alexander MacLeod - 431 Sqn., L'Original; +(R/91891) David Wayne Moore - 147 Sqn., Keewatin; W.H. Roberts, Oshawa; +(J/10652) Albert Barclay Newsome - 435 Sqn., Prescott; H.J. Reeves, Belleville; F.C. Robinson, Pickering; W.J. Ruddy, Ottawa; (R/109984) Gerald Emerson Montgomery, Malcolm Hormats, +(R/96261) Owen Andrew Keech; William Noser, Ivan Guthrie Fulwider, Nones, Frank Young, Knier, +(R/100245) Stanley Ray Maxmen - 111 Sqn.; L.B. Bloxham, Olds, AB; M.L. Eisner, Mirror, AB; M.P. Jordan, Calgary; W.J. Lefebre, Drumheller; W.E. Lemmon, Edmonton; W.J.C. Pearson, Camrose; J.G. Ripley, Spruce Grove; +(R79436 - J.27387) William Harold 'Harry' Morrison, Montreal

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No. 1 EFTS Malton (Co. 39): 23 students - Keech, Moore

No. 2 EFTS Ft. William: 25 students

No. 11 EFTS (Co. 37): Morrison No. 19 EFTS Virden: 16 students

Course 45: December 22, 1941 - April 9, 1942

Wings Parade was held on the tarmac. Brigadier General H.F. MacDonald presented wings to 56 graduates.

(J/11044) George Percy Edington - PoW 438 Sqn. , Vancouver; (J/11046) Gibson Arthur Smith - 613 Sqn., Vancouver; (J/11047 - R/111716) Samuel Gordon Middleman; (J/11048) Lawrence Victor Kirsch - DFC 198 Sqn., Yorkton, Sask.; (J/11050) Harold Edward 'Dutch' Holland - DFC 11 (FB) Sqn., Winnipeg; (J/11051 - R/109903) Ray Tyler Walker - DFC 146 Sqn.; +(J/11052) Geoffrey Fitton Coward - 613 Sqn., Norwich, Ont.; +(J/11053) Bert Howard Smith - 608 Sqn.; (J/11055) Robert J. Roach, Leduc, AB; +(J/11056 - R/101070) Terrance Patrick Jarvis - KIA 401 Sqn.; (J/11057) D.H. Shipley FI 1 SF; (J/11058) Reginald Wallace Rogers, Pt. Arthur; (J/11059) Delbert Francis English - 111/440 Sqns., New Westminster, B.C.

(R/118170) Charles Holt Curl; (R/110334 - J/85657) John Saphir - 124/126/417 Sqns., Chicago; (R/109896) George John Szokoly, Charles Dewar Moir, (R/105295) Thomas A. Todd, Robert Fraser, (R/79122) Earl Charles William Knier - 128 Sqn.; (J/16608) John Muff - 28 Sqn., Carleton Place, Ont.; (J/87390) George Christopher Clewley - PoW 166 Sqn., Hamilton; (R/109060) David Blake Dack - 128/401/411/416 Sqns., Calgary; (J/86502) Alf Coombs - 146 Sqn. Burma; Robert Jansen Evans, Chigwell, AB; (R105826) Harold F. Ulmer - 128/421/443 Sqns., Castor, AB; (R103924) William James Fowler - 128/263 Sqns., Michel, B.C.; Bruce Munro MacKenzie - 441 Sqn., Stettler, AB

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No. 1 EFTS Malton: Knier
No. 2 EFTS Ft. William: Kirsch, Holland, Walker, Jarvis, Fowler
No. 7 EFTS Windsor: Muff, Clewley

On Tuesday, January 1, 1942, the class received an informal visit from Sir Charles Portal, marshal of the RAF, when Winston Churchill visited the station. The class was in session with the flight instructor busy outlining instructions for a cross-country hop when Sir Charles entered the room alone and said:

"Pardon me, gentlemen, may I sit down?"

Sir Charles chatted informally with the students for a few minutes before rejoining the party to continue the inspection.

Course 49 - March 14 - June 5, 1942

His Excellency the Earl of Athlone, Governor General of Canada, pinned wings on the graduates.

"I have come here today to present you with the most coveted prize on the completion of the hardest and the most important part of your training in the air force. You have won your wings and I congratulate you on what you have achieved.

"In none of the three services is the desire to win through more important than that of the air force, and in Canada, where we have the priviledge of making friends with so many of the sons of Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America, as well as our own boys, we know we can depend on you in thjis respect and to give a good account of yourselves when the time comes.

"Already many of that great force of young men who have been trained on this continent of North America have gained distinction in all parts of the world, and I know that your desire will be to emulate their example and to uphold the high standard required in every respect in so fine a corps as the air force.

"Many of your senior officers of today in the Royal Canadian Air Force won their wings and more than their wings during the last war and to them must be given full credit for this wonderful organization - the combined air training plan - which has give to the Allies a formidable addition in the air second to none in the strength and efficiency, and which with the ever-increasing production of machines of all types will finally bring destruction and annihilation to our enemies."

(J/12057) David Simpson Borland - DFC, (J/12058) Baylor Howard Maynard Jr.; +(J/12059) Bruce Leroy Parkinson Pollock, (J/12061) C.K. Black, (J/12062) William Stuart Harvey – 402 Sqn.; (J/12063) John Sydney Cummins - 404 Sqn.; (J/12064) Hollingsworth, Odessa; +(J/12065) William James Windeler – 263 Sqn.

John Thurgood Lamberson, Baylor +Everett Lee Brock, Frank Wilson Rigg, Carl Custer Comant, W.R. Berkinshaw, Ottawa; E.J. Collins, Billings Bridge; +(J/35275) Walter Young James Soper – 166 Sqn.; J.R. MacDonell

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No. 13 EFTS: Cummins

Course 51: March 14 - July 3, 1942

S.L. de Carteret, Deputy Air Minister, presented wings to 41 graduates.

(J/12535) Frederick B. Fallis - 422 Sqn., Toronto; (J/12536) R.B. Murray; (J/12537) Robert Cowan 'Sandy' McRoberts - FI 6 SFTS DFC 421 Sqn., Calgary; (J/12539 - R/109670) Vonner Randolph Cherry - 418 Sqn.; (J/12541 - R/122022) Kent Paget Carlson; +(J/12542) Charles Ernest Fairfield - 401 Sqn., Waterloo; (J/12543) E. Clausen; (J/12544) John William Acheson - DFC 576 Sqn.; (J/12545 - R/122652) Lester Edward Murdock; (J/12546 - R/109952) Huston Harding O'Hair - 127 Sqn.; +(J/12547 - R/122185) Edmund Francis Boyle - 431 Sqn.

+(R111686) Owen Arthur O'Leary - 619 Sqn., Ottawa; (R/109913) Pierre Risso Carpenter - 128/412 Sqns.; +(R/109887) Samuel Hampton McBryde - 15 AFU; (R/122101) Francis George Breest (TR); (R122110) Anthony Frombolo - 127/440 Sqns.; Edward Mills; (R/122086) Kenneth Bruce Hills - 519 Sqn.; Herbert Russell Bilton; (R/109906) Edwin Ruthven Mead; Edward Francis Prindle; (R/123557) Hipolitus Biel; Donald Lee Baker; (R/109882) George Theodore Cross; Clifford Walter Leach; +Eugene Leon Rosner - 106 Sqn.; F.J. Hall, Waterloo; W.U. Hughes, Waterloo; (J/17742) Elmer Burton Dungey - DFC 408 Sqn., Collingwood

Commissioned October 31, 1942: (J/20020) Carson Peck Herrick; +(J/20024) Donald Lloyd Kennedy - 426 Sqn., Merlin; +(J/20023) Herbert Edward Holbrook - 412 Sqn., London; (J/20018) Edmund Harold Fairfield - 443 Sqn., Cardinal; (J/200 - -) Charles Austin Thompson, Sault Ste. Marie

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No. 4 EFTS Windsor Mills, Quebec

No. 5 EFTS High River: McRoberts

No. 19 EFTS Virden, Manitoba (Co. 45): O'Hair; Carpenter; Breest; Mead; Herrick; McBryde

May 31, 1942: At 1540 hours, at Edward's Field, LAC H.T. Biel landed Harvard 2987 with the under carriage retracted. Pilot uninjured. Slight damage to centre section.

Course 53: April 11 - July 31, 1942

Air Marshal 'Billy' Bishop presented 'wings' to members of the course, including his son Arthur. He went on to address the graduates.

"This war will be won in the air. This is your hour. You must grasp it and make the most of it. I know you will.

"The traditions that were built up in the last war were very great and high indeed, but the traditions that have been built up in this war by the men of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Canadian Air Force have excelled anything that we could possibly have hoped for.

"Overseas you will meet a fierce and fighting foe. You can meet him with confidence that you are better trained than he is, that you are better equipped and, much more important, you are a better man than he is. You will win, never fear."

(J/13087) Robert Nelson Harrison; +(J/13088 - R/126796) Edgar Leroy Clary Jr.; +(J/13089) Edwin Lusk Ashbury - 521 Sqn., Toronto; (J/13090) William Keir Carr - DFC 683 Sqn.; (J/13091) G.F. Woram (FI 6 SF); (J/13093) William Horace Benton; (J/13094) Vincent Coleman Dolhaney - DFC 430 Sqn., Plaster Rock, N.B.; +(J/13096) David Leigh Sproule, Westmount, Que.; +(J/13097) Francis Charles Bowring - 13 Sqn., Milton, Ont.;+(J/13098) George Frederick Jackson - 430 Sqn.; (J/13099) R.K. Davidson, Ottawa; +(J/13100) William Boyd Reynolds - 170 Sqn., Winnipeg; (J/13101 - R/125798) William Arthur Christian Avery Bishop - 401 Sqn.; (J/13103) John Griffin Langdon; (J/13104) Thomas Hancel Dean - DFC 184 Sqn.

A.K. Keats - 412 Sqn.; E.A.K. Mundy, Charles Spring, C.H. Reeves, Toronto; Gordon Walter Archer (DFC); G.M. Hyndman, +(R/129026) Thomas Frederick Hyndman, Oakville; W. Wood, W.E. Worthington, Hamilton; J.M. Brady, W.E. Cummings, North Bay; F.G. Doyle; Chatham; (J18113) Frederick Thomas Murray - DFC 401/412 Sqns., St. John, N.B.; J.R. McLaughlin, Colborne; +(R/127520) Leslie Allan Wearn, Enniskillen; Francis Leo Albert, David Rogers Bowers, +Edwin William Burrows, +Reber Eugene Courson, Russell M. Maugansof, +Quendo, G.F. Woram, Vancouver, E.W.G. Verley, Vancouver, H.B. Summers, Victoria, R.S. Downing, Vernon; David Coleman Seton? Montreal

Commissioned October 31, 1942: (J/20013) Lawrence Joseph Hurrell, Carleton Place

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No. 3 EFTS Crumlin (Co. 48): Wearn

No. 13 EFTS: Dean

No. 22 EFTS (Co. 48): Dolhaney, Clary, Murray

April 25, 1942: At 14:50 hours in Harvard 2667, LAC A.C.W. Bishop groundlooped at main aerodrome. Serious damage to aircraft; pilot uninjured.

Course 55: May 9 - August 28, 1942

Graduates received their pilot wings from Air Vice Marshal Robert Leckie, D.S.O., D.S.C., D.F.C., air member for training council. He addressed the graduates before presenting their wings.

"The air forces of the United Nations now equal and soon will surpass the maximum strength that the Axis can ever hope to put in the air.

"To you goes the honor of serving in this great air fleet and in no inconsiderable portion of it, The Royal Canadian Air Force.

"You have inherited proud traditions that have their roots in a previous German war wherein Canadians stretched their wings and fought their way to a place in history and you wear the coveted badge of the combatant pilot - the badge that is proudly worn by the air forces of the British Empire all over the world.

"You are going against a tough and seasoned foe - no coward, skilful, resourceful and still flushed with all too many easy victories. But do not let anyone tell you he is a superman. He is not. Your fathers have met him before in aerial combat and on equal terms defeated him. You will do the same because you are better trained, better men and your cause is just.

Graduates from New Zealand, Brazil. Hon. Frank Langstone, New Zealand High Commissioner, was among the large crowd of spectators. H.S. Schliefer, Jamaica

"Mike," the Great Dane station mascot made his presence known during the ceremony - stealing a lady's umbrella and grabbing the sleeve on an officer. A couple of officers and policeman wrestled with Mike to extract the umbrella from his grip. He was then escorted out of the hangar and confined to barracks. It was reported that Mike had the run of the station and obeyed only Wing Commander William O'Brien, the station officer commanding.

Ottawa Rough Rider football star Anthony Charles 'Tony' Golab was one of the graduates. Golab later commented to reporters about received his wings.

"It was the greatest thrill of my life. I got a bigger kick out of it than I do slipping across the enemy's goal line in a football game.

"You can take it from me that the esprit de corps in the Royal Canadian Air Force tops anything I've ever seen in football."

Golab's brother Frank also served as a fighter pilot with the RCAF. He graduated with Course 25 - No. 10 SFTS, Dauphin. Frank Golab was captured by the Japanese in Java. He described his captivity in October 1945 when he returned to Canada.

"At first the food was good, then it got bad, then it got scarce. Finally there was practically none."

(J/13708 - R/135112) John Wilson Glen; (J/13709 - R/131102) Ross Hunter Finlayson - 409 Sqn., Hamilton +(J/13710) Roy Gibson Madge - 428 Sqn., Winnipeg; +(J/13711) Douglas Raymond Robertson - DFC 190 Sqn., Vancouver; (J/13712) Douglas Raymond Robertson; (J/13713) Stuart Michael Adams; (J/13714) Gordon Douglas Russell; (J/13715) Wilson James Nixon - (FI 1 SF), Toronto; (J/13716) George Albert Newton; (J/13717) +(J/13718 - R/50851) Ralph Harvey Hunter - DFC 28 Sqn., Edmonton (remustered AEM); (J/13719) Leonard Mervin Bishop, Belleville; (J/13720) David Keith Wedderspoon; (J/13721) Norman Beverley Morrison; (J/13722) Henry George Taverner; (J/13723) Earl Alfred Lawrence; (J/13724) William Cavendish Macneill - 269 Sqn., Pt. Colborne; (J/13725) Victor Cameron Starratt

Commissioned October 31, 1942: +(J20010 - R125876) Donald Rae McLean, Ottawa; (J/20011) Anthony Charles 'Tony' Golab; +(J/20012) Edward Worrell Graham - 41 OTU; +(J/20014) Wesley Elmore Cummings - 401 Sqn., North Bay; (J/20017) Eugene Leon Rosner; (J/20019) Mark Elmer Mills, (J/20021) Herbert Russell Bilton, (J/20022) Donald Lee Baker, +(J/20023) Herbert Edward Holbrook - 412 Sqn., London; +(J/20024) Donald Lloyd Kennedy - 426 Sqn.; (J/20025) Charles Austin Thompson - DFC 405 Sqn.; (J/20026) Clifford Walter Leach; Arthur Reginald Scaviour, New Liskeard; +(10191 - J/20008) Harry Morden Sharpe - 613 Sqn., Deseronto; Donald Ray McLean, Ottawa

+(R/126874) John Robert Fee, (R/133120) John Arthur Metzger; (R/133320) Jack Laurence Raphael; Earl Alfred Lawrence; +(R/128862) Gordon Murray Duda; (R/135513) Shelby Othello Buck; John Louis McMahon - 430 Sqn., Ottawa; David Keith Wedderspoon - 406 Sqn., Ottawa; (R/125810) Raymond Luis Gregg; +(J/18902) Robert Edward Crewe - 402 Sqn., Wheatley; +(R/63606) John Francis Sheridan - 428 Sqn. Peenemunde, London; J.C. Russell, North Bay; R.H. Riddell, Toronto; (J/39118) E.M. Fraser, Cobden; R. Gregg; N.B. Morrison, Toronto; J.W. Regan, Toronto; E.H. Richards, Toronto Edmonton

Four remustered RCAF personnel including Sgt. Roy Gibson Madge of Charleswood, Manitoba. He was a member of the permanent force and reverted to the rank of warrant officer, 2nd class, to take his pilot's training.

RAAF: +(403343) Ian Ross Ingram - 225 Sqn.

RNZAF: +(NZ417072) Kevin Charles Loe - 126 Sqn.

June 20, 1942: Leading Aircraftman William Caesar 'Bill' Oquendo, New York City, was killed in flying accident near Brockville. Oquendo was one of four Americans who played with the 1941 Ottawa Rough Riders football team and also trained with Course 55. Shelby Buck and Raymond Luis Gregg were killed after transferring to the USAAF. Mike Klimenko was killed in a flying accident at No. 1 OTU Bagotville.

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No. 5 EFTS: Robertson, Madge

No. 13 EFTS St. Eugene: Hunter

No. 22 EFTS (Co. 50): Sharpe, Sheridan

Course 57: June 6 - September 25, 1942

(J/14430)? A.G. McCaughey; +(J/14431 - R/64054) Ameen Nicholas 'Dick' Ferris - 161 Sqn., Sault Ste. Marie; (J/14432) Frank MacArthur Rock - remustered met; (J/14433) William R. Chynoweth; (J/14434) Roderick Richard Patton - 414 Sqn. PoW 67 TacR; (J/14435 - R/137215) Vernon Richard Johnson; (J/14436) R.J. McPherson - SP 4 BGS; (J/14437 - R82992) Gerald Hagerman - DFC 437 Sqn., Mallorytown, Ont.; (J/14438) Carman W. James, Russell; (J/14439) James H. Fram, Mimico; +(J/14440) Marcel Auguste Decloux - 404 Sqn., Toronto; (J/14441 - R53573) J.L. Nicholson, Ottawa; (J/14442 - R/135581) Donald R. Carmichael, Carleton Place; +(J/14443 - 18003A) Raymond William Potts - 414 Sqn., remustered clerk Windsor

(J/19137) Norman Albert Phibbs, Windsor; +(R/135199) James Vincent "Bing" O'Neill - KIFA 58 OTU.; +(R/138527) Edward Blake Farren - KIFA 58 OTU, St. John, N.B.; Peter Abdel Bechtel; +(J/86932) John Donald Buchanan - 609 Sqn., Ottawa; (R/135629) John R. Callingham, Kingston; +(R/125901) Kenneth Lyle Dale - 249 Sqn., Ottawa; +(J/93405) William Stanley Bradly - 155 Sqn., Ottawa; (R135753) William G. Conway, Bridgeport, CT; Cyril Morgan Cottingham, Comox, B.C.; (R/116160) Cecil Edward Durnin, Winnipeg; Fred Wendall Glover; (R/137149) John Robert Haas; Franklyn Earle Hendrickson; Gerald William Hinchey; (R136376) William Charles Irvin; (J/27775) Jaffrey Robert 'Jeff' Mellon - FI 9 SF, Hamilton; Allan C. Bradhurst, Toronto; John D. Buchanan, Ottawa; (J/43203) Howard Virgil Henbest, Ottawa; Robert D.G. Arkell, Ingersoll; (R/127984) George H. MacMillan, Collingwood; Bruce A. McPhail, Renfrew; Verne Montgomery, South Mountain; Samuel Hawthorne Smillie, Milton; +(R/126851) Robert Dale Fattig - KIFA 55 OTU Feb. 28, 1943 Hurricane W9170; (R/135705) Peter Gerald Lehman; Knilans; (R137159) Jack George

Harry Sewell, remustered ex RCAF dispatch rider, Ottawa; Frank MacArthur Rock - remustered met, Edmonton; James Laird Nicholson - remustered wireless mechanic, Ottawa

Harry Sewell: "Watching the RCAF aircrew lads overseas, is the only reason I can give for wanting to re-muster to aircrew. It was an inspiration to me, and, at the time I never thought this day would arrive."

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No. 3 EFTS Crumlin: 6 students Lehman

No. 7 EFTS Windsor (Co. 52): 5 students Phibbs, Potts

No. 12 EFTS Goderich: 3 students

No. 13 EFTS St. Eugene (Co. 52): 28 students Fattig, O'Neil; Knilans; Hagerman; Irvin; George, Conway, Haas; Felton

No. 21 EFTS Chatham: 4 students Ault

No. 22 EFTS Ancienne Lorette: 10 students Hagerman

August 23, 1942: At 10:30 hours, while carrying out solo cross country exercise, in Harvard 2592, LAC C.E. Durnin, was returning from Trenton to Uplands. He was carrying out unauthorized low flying and struck a pole supporting wires across Bob's Lake, tearing off a section of his starboard wing.

September 18, 1942: (R/137101) LAC Rosier M. Cross and (R/125936) LAC Arthur Wellington Ault killed in Harvard 3828 while carrying out cross country navigation course near Lake Calabogie.

Course 59: July 4 - October 23, 1942

Wings Parade held at 1530 hours. Prime Minister Mackenzie King presented wings at a special ceremony held on Parliament Hill. 57 graduates, 15 of whom were Americans.

(J/20134) Robert Allen Kenny - PoW 437 Sqn. Op Market Garden, Buckingham, Que. - top in class. His brother Jim also graduated with the class.

Nine members of the RCAF who remustered to air crew graduated with Course 59. Sgt. Elwood Garry - ex clerk, Cpl. Douglas Harker - ex clerk; LAC Lacasse, LAC Peter Skoblack - former groundman wireless operator; LAC Gilbert Wass - former AEM, Owen Sound; Cpl. Lionel Yates - former AEM, Toronto and Sgt. Hugh McLeod - former AEM, Wadena, Sask., took a reduced rank to make the change; Sgt. Harry Mitchell, Toronto and Cpl. Austin Buck, Acton

(J/20135) Walter Raymond Gladding; +(J/20136 - R/131515) Richard Joseph Audet - DFC & Bar 411 Sqn., Lethbridge, Alta.; (J/20137) James Henry Frederick Kenny - 181 Sqn.; +(J/20138) Norman Paulle Courtney Woodward - 263 Sqn., Vancouver; +(J/20139) Lionel Joseph Yeats - 38 Sqn., Toronto; (J/20140) James Buckingham Dalglish; (J/21041) Cecil Douglas Desmond Corbett; +(J/20142) John Robertson Wardrope - 430 Sqn., Weston; (J/20143 - R/129534) George Alexander Linton; +(J/20144) Robert Edwin Baker - 414 Sqn., Sedgewick, Alta.; (J/20145) Harold Miller; (J/20146) Donald James Inches - DFC 609 Sqn., St. Stephen, N.B.; (J/20147) Elwood Garry; (J/20148) R.C.J. Brown; (J/20149) Eric Loken, Kelowna, B.C.; (J/20150 - R/144160) James Wesley Edwards; (J/20151) Raymond Arthur Walker - 430 Sqn.; (J/20152) Lynus Raitt Pattee - DFC 48 Sqn., Hawkesbury, Ont.; +(J/20153) Douglas Harker, Toronto; (J/20154) Peter Chuslian Wang; (J/20155) Weldon Frayne 'Bud' Chambers; (J/20156) Hubert Baker Hatfield - 432 Sqn.; +(J/20157) Joseph William Henry Conway - DFC 268 Sqn., East Angus, Que.; (J/20158) C.J. Howes; (J/20159) John William Grant

Edard Mains Lacasse, Brockville; +(R/59063) Peter Skoblack, Sudbury; Gilbert Wass, Owen Sound; Hugh McLeod, Wadena, Sask.; (J/85013) Lionel Palma Joseph Dupuis (DFC), George Forbes Sanderson, Charles Douglas Beck, Walter Chumak, Harry John Mitchell, Austin Osmond Buck, Kenneth Charles Lett, John David MacFarlane, Ralph Harry Tate, (J85008) David Edward Ness (DFC), (R/141555) Richard Snow Alexander, (R/144190) Martin Johnston Binion, (R/137481) George Parker Devol, (R/144160) James Wesley Edwards, +(R/137479) Ervin Earl Grissom, William Hale Jones, Jack Frederick Paul Justice, Pittman Parke Legate, Francis Phillip Markle, +John Edgar McDonald, (R/133718) Richard Laughton Pascoe, +Charles Henry Schreiber, +(R/137419) Wilber Joseph Shaver, James Henry Somers, (R/145029) Richard Henry Claeys

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No. 13 EFTS: Pattee

No. 14 EFTS: Inches

No. 21 EFTS Chatham, N.B. (Co. 54): Grissom No. 22 EFTS Ancienne Lorette: Audet, Conway, Shaver

Course 61: August 1 - November 20, 1942

Wings Parade was held in No. 1 Hangar at 1500 hours. Wings were presented by the U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Jay Pierrepont Moffatt. 60 graduates, of which 15 were Americans, and 1 RAF.

"You are graduating at the great moment in history when the United Nations are turning from the defensive to the offensive.

"As the dramatic events of North Africa and elsewhere prove, you are joining your comrades at a moment when, for the first time, we are advancing on a vast scale.

"For you we trust that service will not be the dogged, difficult task of defence, but that it will be the inspiration of offense. You are the first class from Uplands under this bright star."

Moffatt said he was proud that there were 15 Americans in the graduating class who felt the joint cause was so indivisible that they were as happy to fight in the air force blue as in the khaki uniform worn south of the border.

"That they should so feel is a tribute as well to the consideration they have been shown, to the friendliness, hospitality and fair play which are proverbial in Canada, and to the close community of interests which we neighbors have.

"Your class proves again that Canadians and Americans cannot only think alike but act together and common action is the best proof of the sure foundations upon which Canadian-American friendship rests. May you experience that exaltation that men of your calling especially enjoy and return after victory to a better, brighter, happier world.

"We hope that along the flyways of the fighting zones you will all become Beurlings. But, whether you have that good fortune or not you will always have our praise and thanks.

"Today is our chance to tell you, face to face, that we pledge ourselves to back you to the hilt. You carry our standard higher and farther forward than anyone else in the battle and we can see that your total effort over there is sustained by our total efforts over here."

(J/21119) James Easson Hogg (DFC - 439 Sqn.) - top in class. Hogg enlisted before the war began as a metal worker. He was one of eight former ground crew who remustered and graduated as pilots.

"I've been a long time waiting for this, but I hoped some day to be a pilot."

(J/21120) Anthony John Adrian Bryan - DFC 403/417 Sqns.; +(J/21121) Wilbert Anley Healy - DFC 49 Sqn., Parry Sound; (J/21122) John Fraser Macdonald; (J/21123) James Maurice Spencer (FI 1 SF); (J/21124) Walter Gilbert Dinsdale - DFC 410 Sqn., Brandon, MB; (J/21125) John Baskerville Conlin - DFC 107 Sqn., Kingston; (J/21126) Lloyd Joseph Spence; (J/21127) James William Gealy, (J/21128) Robert Gordon Miller Armour remustered fitter, Perth, Ont.; (J/21129) Irving Lloyd McLean; (J/21130) Howard Allyn Vosper, (J/21131) Colin Joseph MacGillivray; +(J/21132) George Dunlop Brown - 155 Sqn., Hamilton; (J/21133) Richard William Gill; +(J/21134) Walter John Caverley - 644 Sqn., Toronto; (J/21135) Robert Charles O'Dell; (J/21136) Raymond Alexander Brown - 439 Sqn.; (J/21137) Allan Smith; (J/21138) Cliance Albin Magee - SP 4 B&GS; (J/21139) James Howard Wilson; +(J/21140) Robert Jackson Grigg - 421 Sqn., Bruce Mines; (J/21141) Stuart Turner Grant; (J/21142) William Henry Harry Bradshaw, Dundas, Ont.; (J/21143) Charles Lebert Burgess - DFC 439 Sqn.; (J/21144) Billy Joe Hardin, +(J/21145) Leonard Francis LeChien - 56 OTU, Windsor; (J/21146) William Hamilton Ingram; (J/21147) Roy Alexander Jackson, Toronto; +(J/21148) Everett Embert Ettinger - 273 Sqn. - remustered from P.T. instructor, Saskatoon

(R/137048) James Lawrence Breed, (R/145116) Norman Robert Bullian, (R/141573) Walter Risbeck Frederick, (R/141232) George William Barnes; Stuart T. Grant, Lorne Park; (R/146583) Douglas George Parker - DFC 436 Sqn., +(J/89805) George (Frazer) Kingsbury - 5 Sqn., Hull, Quebec; Francis S. 'Frank' Lapniewski

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Course 63: September 1 - December 18, 1942

Wings Parade held at 1400 hours.

30 RCAF graduates, 26 RAF

Group Captain G.G. Banting of the United Kingdom Air Liason Mission addressed the graduates and pinned wings on the tunic of each pilot. He read a speech prepared for delivery to graduates by Air Vice-Marshal L.L.D. McKean, C.B., O.B.E., Chief Liason Officer, United Kingdom Air Liason Mission, who had consented to make the presentation, prior to becoming ill.

"Determine to excel in whatever jobs you are employed upon; seek new knowledge to improve your own; don't hesistate to ask questions from those who have accumulated knowledge from hard-won experience in battle.

"You will be going into battle against tough fighters who will show you no mercy. Well, just be tougher, smash them again and again until you have utterly crushed them and driven them from the sky forever.

"The Royal Air Force and the Dominions' Air Forces have built up imperishable traditions of the highest order for bravery and utter devotion to duty. On each one of you, on me and on all of us in the services, the responsibility rests to maintain, and, if possible, add glory to those traditions.

"If you are willing to accept my advice two things are possible - you may end up becoming chief of air staff for your service; or what is infinitely more important, you will probably come out of the war alive and kicking.

"Be determined, therefore, never under any circumstances to let your service down. By carelessness or selfish behavior one individual can do real harm to his service. Honestly I envy you from the bottom of my heart - I would gladly change places with you, but I don't think I would have any takers.

"The really efficient airman is the one who never stops learning all his life.

"Show, as I am confident you will, that there are no superiors in the sky to the graduates produced by this historic and magnificent air training plan which had its birth in Canada and is now at its full and impressive strength. Godspeed and good hunting to you all."

"If you are willing to accept my advice excel in whatever jobs you are employed upon, then two things' are possible - you may end up by becoming Chief of Air Staff, or what is infinitely more important, you will probably come out of the war alive and kicking."

+(J/22032 - 2438) Harold Douglas Pepper - remustered AFM - KIFA 10 OTU, Edmonton; +(J/22033) Clifford Marvin Bingham - 10 OTU, Winnipeg; +(J/22034) Ronald Olaf ‘Dickie’ Moen – 439 Sqn., Saskatoon; +(J/22035) Maurice Preston Laycock – 439 Sqn., Shellbrook, Saskatchewan; (J/22036 - R/138168) Sidney Platt Seid - DFC 418 Sqn., (J/22037) Ralph E. Allen, Rosemount, Que.; (J/22039) J.F. Davidson - POW 421 Sqn. Westmount; (J/22040) Frank Alton, Lindsay; (J/22041) H.J.B. Fitzgibbon, Strathmore, Que.; (J/22042) George Arthur Weldon - DFC 427 Sqn., Halifax; (J/22043) Frederick Morrison Botting – POW, Victoria; (J/22044) Wilson N. Rivers, Ottawa; (J/22045) Morris E. Gulliver, Leamington; (J/22046) Oke Olson - 407 Sqn., Woodroffe; (J/22047) Bruce W. Hooker; (J/22049) Clarence F. Armstrong, Parry Sound; (J/22050) J.E. Gifford; (J/22051) J.M. Campbell, Saskatoon

Bruce A. Christie, Toronto; William A. Gray, Toronto; Donald B. McLaughlin, Toronto; Bruce Frederick Beare, Port Perry; David W. Burke, Hamilton; +(R/129757) William Ellwood Smillie, London; (R/135917) Thomas Concklin Stephens (KTS); +(R/136460) Frank Edward Adams, Whitby; M.B. Harper, Haney, B.C.; Morrison; C.A. Rice, Middleton, N.S.; +(C4505) Herbert Arthur Spence, Winnipeg; J.E. Gifford, Sask.; W.E. Smille, London; D.D. McLaughlin, Toronto; Bruce W. Hocker, Bury, Que.; J.M. Walton, Moosomin, Sask.; H.D. Pepper, Edmonton

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No. 2 EFTS (Co. 59): Smillie

No. 17 EFTS Stanley, N.S. (Co. 59): Pepper, Bingham

Course 65: Sept. 28, 42 - Jan. 22, 1943

Wings Parade held at 1400 hours. 53 graduates - 4 U.S., 1 Brazil

+(J/22813 - R/57898) Shirley William Morris - 203 Sqn. (remustered sheet metal); (J/22816) W.M. New?; +(J/22819) John Campbell Younge - 414 Sqn., Camrose, AB; (J/22823) William Nelson Peters; (J/22825) Ernest Riley Wilson; (J/22828 - R149143) Earl Percy Bruce - 273 Sqn.; +(J/22831) Allan Russell Hall, Montreal

Irvine A. Bannerman, Robert Dunlop Davidson, Harvey R. Smith, Hamilton; Angus M. Lott, Frederick G. Hill, William J . Oliver, Sarnia; Harrison Stewart 'Dave' Davison, Windsor; +(J/88630) William Henry Billing - 272 Sqn., R.R, No. 1, Essex; Alfred H. Bossenberry, Parkhill; William J. Morrison, Holstein; +(R/116943) WilIis Don Murdie - KIFA 86 OTU, London; +(R129685 - J/85454) Russell Arthur Saltzberry - 405 Sqn., New Dundee; Arthur M. Hewitt, Chesterville

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No. 13 EFTS St. Eugene (Co.61): Morris, Saltzberry, Wilson, Billing

Course 67: October 26, 1942 - February 19, 1943

Wings presentation at 1500 hours by Group Captain F.A. Sampson.

_(J/23869 - R150049) Douglas Emerson Geldart; (J/23875) Eugene Thomas Fox; (J/23879) Robert Kiriakides; (J/23882) James Gillam Penfield; (J/23883) A.C. Doerr; (J/23885) Robert Earl Johnson - DFC 408 Sqn.; (J/23886) Mervin Arthur Buchanan - DFC 550 Sqn.; (J/23887) Bernard Vincent Genge - 430/443 Sqns.; (J/23888) John Oswald Birch - DFC 103 Sqn., Toronto; +(J/23893) Newark Thomas Andrews - 501 Sqn., Cornwall; (J/23894) Sidney Bregman - 441 Sqn.; +(J/23895) Charles Edward O'Brien - 432 Sqn., Toronto; (J/23896) John Duncan Gilmore - DFC 626 Sqn.; (J/23897) Michael J. 'Mike' Dooher - 203 Sqn.; +(J/23898) Frederick Health Broad - 257 Sqn., Toronto; +(J/23899) Robert Huston Bannihr - 424 Sqn., Toronto; D.A. Blake Smiley, Perth;

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St. Eugene: Broad

No. 9 EFTS St. Catharines: O'Brien, Fox

No. 12 EFTS Goderich: Birch

No. 17 EFTS Stanley, N.S.: Geldart

Pendleton: Bannihr

Course 69: November 23, 1942 - March 19, 1943

Wings Parade held at 1430 hours. Group Captain F.A. Sampson, C.O., presented wings to the Canadian graduates, and Captain Howell, U.S. Naval Air Attache, presented wings to the 14 American graduates. Lieutenant-Commander Fleischmann was also present at the parade.

57 graduates

(J/24567) Howard Nemerov; (J/24568) Edward B. 'Ted' Arnold, Argentina; (J/24571) Sgt. Thomas Norman Norton, Ottawa; (J/24572) James C. Savage - 415 Sqn., Westmount; (J/24573) Leslie G. Simons - 8 Sqn., Montreal; (J/24574) Claire Templeton Bowser, Hamilton; (J/24575 - R/153527) John (Ross) Eccles, Toronto; (J/24576) William Wallace Frazer, Woodroffe; +(J/24577) Eric Rodger Church - 61 Sqn.; (J/24579) Albert Chown Edmunds, Ottawa; (J/24580) Foster Warner New, Windsor; (J/24581) Stewart Alexander Coffin, Calgary; +(J/24582) Raymond Louis Bisson - KIFA 8 SF, Hull, Que.; (J/24583) Wallace Raymond 'Ray' Greene, Point Pleasant; (J/24584) Ernest G. Green, Montreal; (J/24588) Edward Coleman E. Saunders; +(J/24589) Everett Raymond Rognan - 408 Sqn., Erickson, MB; +(J/24590) Donald Eugene Raymond, Campbellton, N.B.; (J/24591) Lawrence David Wing; (J/24592) Thomas Gordon Munro, Montreal; (J/24593 - R/122052) Darrel Word Davis - 65 Sqn., Kamloops; (J/24594) Neil F. Ogilvie, Burlington, N.S.; (J/24595) John Ingleby Jefferson, Bear River, N.S.; (J/24596) Dennis Peter Varden (GM), Verdun; (J/24597) Sgt. John Evans Hughes, Toronto; (J/24598) William J.F. Dunlop, Hamilton

+(J/89920) Thomas Weldon Tuttle - 411 Sqn., Pugwash, N.S.; Godfrey Frankel Pinhey, Ottawa; +(C3796) PO. Bruce Sherwood Corbett - 62 Sqn.; Sgt. Franklin Frederick Edward; Alex Grover Moore, Brantford; Leslie William Burgess, Amherstburg; Patrick Joseph 'Pat' McNenly - 263 Sqn., Massey remustered AFM; Norman Bernard Campbell, Trenton; Floyd Russell 'Bud' Loveless - 414 Sqn., Deloro; +(R/143774 - J/87156) Mackenzie 'Mac' Reeves - 403 Sqn., Madoc; George A. Johnson, Halifax - former WAG; Frank Elliott, Amherst, N.S.; Daniel Ensminger, Granum, Alberta; D.W. Davis, Kamloops; +(J85448) Mackenzie Davidson Reid - 197 Sqn., Basswood, Manitoba; E.S. Sanderson, Ottawa; Lloyd Baxter, Montreal; A.W. Smith, Montreal; Robert Boxer, Westmount; +(J87640) John Ruddell, Montreal; Frederick Belden Rau; +(J89920) Thomas Weldon 'Tom' Tuttle - 411 Sqn., Pugwash, N.S.; +(J/85756 - R84598) George Eugene Langille - 193 Sqn., St. John, N.B.; Franklin Elward, Toronto; Lloyd Richards, Montreal; Archibald Grier, Westmount

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No. 10 EFTS Pendleton (Co. 64): Reeves, Tuttle

No. 20 EFTS: Varden

Course 71: December 4, 1942 - April 16, 1943

Wings Parade for Course 71 at 1400 hours. 59 graduates - 5 Americans. Group Captain F.A. Sampson pinned wings on the pilots' tunics. Graduates from Brazil, United States and England. Several of the Canadian graduates were remustered ground crew including: S/L E.B. Johnson, Vancouver; Sgt. George Sheahan; R.S. Arnold; Andrew Huchala; (10524) Earl Mayo; T.A. Smeed, Regina; M.J.W. MacDonald, Verdun

Class leader was (J/25357 - R/129802) Sgt. E.G. Coulson, of London, Ontario, who remustered from flight sergeant pharmacist to pilot trainee.

(J/25358) J.P.A. Bedard, North Bay, was second in course

(J/25359) T.A. Sneed; (J/25360) A.V. Saintsbury; (J/25361) G.S. Bassett; (J/25362) Andrew Paul Huchala - DFC 431 Sqn.; (J/25363) Paul Septimus Deacon; (J/25364) M.L. Grigg; (J/25365)(J/25366) J.A. McManus, Perth; (J/25367) J.D. Russell; (J/25368) Joseph Edward Gaston St. Jean - 425 Sqn.; +(J/25370) Ernest Verdon Duckworth - 407 Sqn.; (J/25372) Joseph Alphonse Leon Louis Renaud - 425 Sqn.; +(J/25375) David Mayson Price - 115 Sqn.; +(J/25377) James Roberts Burton - 166 Sqn.; +(J/25378) Russell Nelson Wilson - 419 Sqn.; (J/25379) James Leonard King - DFC 424 Sqn.; (J/25382 - 10524) Earl Charles Mayo - DFC 427 Sqn.; (J/25383) George Lorne Sheahan - 419 Sqn.; +(J/25391) Ronald William Alexander Rankin - 464 Sqn.; +(J/25395) Spencer Waddey Cook - 101 Sqn.; (J/25399) John Alan Anderson - DSO, DFC 419 Sqn.

H. B. Allan, J.R. Burton, A. H. Hopkins, P.S. Deacon, J. L. King, Arthur Van Rensselaer 'Van' Sainsbury - 403 Sqn., Toronto; N.D. Cairns, R.A. Fulford, Richard Heringer, D. C. McDonald, D.M. Price, D. J. Snowdon, Ottawa; Adam Scheffler and R A. Shannon, Hamilton; G. C. Langford, London ; E. S. Jones, Windsor, A. S. Arnold, Woodroffe; Elgin Evans Coutts - 162 Sqn., Wingham; W. R. Fair, Bowmanville ; R. J. Lang, Kirkland Lake; Frederick Mitchell, Sudbury; R. L. Montgomery, Orangeville; M. G. Rivet, North Bay; Walter William Stratton, Fort Erie; L. C Waugh, Sault Ste. Marie; W. N. Wilson, Brussels; P.S. Wilson, Oshawa

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No. 13 EFTS: Sainsbury

No. 20 EFTS

Course 75: February 20 - June 11, 1943

Course 77: March 21 - July 9, 1943

Wings Parade held at 0900 hours. Air Marshal Breadner presented wings to RCAF and RAF graduates. Group Captain White presented wings to the 8 RNZAF graduates.

+(J/28151) Dugald Morrison - 415 Sqn.; +(J/28154 - R/156213) William Micheal Bowlen - 407 Sqn., Toronto; (J/28155) Lorne W. A. Frame - Evader 419 Sqn., Ottawa; (J28162) William Lawrence Beatty - 438 Sqn., St. Catharines; (J/28164) J.L. 'Mickey' Harrison - 128/439 Sqns., Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan; (J/28165) George Alfred Welch; (J/28170) Donald Claude Campbell - 111/440 Sqns., DFC, Capreol; (J/28171) David Heath Murray - DFC 625 Sqn., Pointe Claire, Que.; (J/28175) Frederick Gerrard Mahler, Galt; (J/28177) Robert Clare McCracken - 128/411 Sqns., PoW, Lakefield; (J/28179) Gene Mitchell Atyeo - PoW 101 Sqn.; +(J/28180) John Fraser Dewar - 111/440 Sqns., London, Ont.; (J/28182) Roger J. Robillard - 442 Sqn., Ottawa

H.L. Brady, Kirkland Lake; F.A. Hoyle, Hamilton; J.E. Cullen, Newmarket; Boris L. Rabzak, Toronto; Russell Parkinson, Toronto; W.J. Newsome, Prescott; Wilson George Leach, Chalk River

Sgt. M.E. Valley, Ottawa; (R/161770) W.G. Brent, Ottawa; D.J.C. Chisholm, Northfield Station; E.T. Roberts, Ganaoque; J.W. Moore, Kingston; +(J/87553) William Murray Aldred - 431 Sqn., Port Perry; F/O J.W. Taylor, Toronto; H.E.C. Cruikshank, Toronto; +(R/152430) James Francis Walterhouse, Cooksville; K.W.J. Clute, Barrie; +(R/161444) Robert Owen Gregory Ives - KIFA No. 5 (P) AFU, St. Catharines; W.D. Munro, Dunnville; W.M. Westervelt, Ayton; D.J. Ferguson, Walkerton; +(R/168256) Clifford Alexander Robertson, Harrow; Lloyd Soroka, Sudbury

No. 10 EFTS Pendleton (Co. 71): Bowlen

Course 81: May 17 - September 4, 1943

(J/35205) John Truman 'Gunsmoke' Mantley; (J/35206) John Beresford Russell, Toronto; (J/35207) Sidney Gerald Walton; +(J/35208) James McVeigh Flood - 421 Sqn., Hearst, Ont.; (J/35213) J.H. McAneney, Toronto

N.A. Burns, Toronto; J.E. French, Toronto; J.G. Patten, Toronto; H.J. Thomas, Toronto; M.M. Wenger, Toronto; C.K. Bateman, Windsor; O. McMillan, Windsor; D.C. Ilsley, Essex; G.W. Garrod, Ridgetown; D.C. McKay, Owen Sound; P.H. Hurst, Haileybury

Edward Emerson Mills, Richmond

May 28, 1943: (C7115) P/O W.G. Baker (student) Crashed Harvard BW185 while on a solo flight - killed.

Course 83: June 14 - October 1, 1943

Wings were presented by Group Captain A. Raymond. 46 RCAF, 14 RAF trainees

(J/36344) John McCreary Elliott Coyne - DFC 404 Sqn., Winnipeg; +(J/36345) Alfred John Clark - 435 Sqn.; (J/36346) S.L. Greenslade; (J/36347) Carl Andrew E. Ellement, Ev 411 Sqn., Ft. Erie; +(J/36348) Joseph Ross Eugene Brouillette - 153 Sqn., Knowlton, Que.; (J/36349) Howard Vincent McLean - George Medal 14 SFTS, Ottawa; (J/36350) H.R. Hunter, Brampton; (J/36351 - 2330) John Simpson Brock - 439 Sqn., Britannia Bay; +(J/36353) Robert Tait Roth - 195 Sqn., Cornwall; (J/36354) James Francis Fitzgerald, Ottawa; (J/36355) Franciscus Bruyns - DFC 419 Sqn., Wales

M.A. Brown, Belleville; William Herbert Frayn, Kingston; James Howard Munro, Cornwall; Frank Edward Chambers - 207 Sqn., Fergus; Paul Oleynik - 76 Sqn., Windsor; Vernon Redfern, Sault Ste. Marie; John Alexander Usher, Ottawa; P.G. Anderson, Ottawa; Edward Libby Munday, Ottawa; +(R/180812) Gilbert Keith Cameron, Metcalfe; W. Lloyd Short, Oshawa; W.D. Gray, Oshawa; R.J. Holmes, Newton; Fred Ronald Kearns, Quyon, Que.; Peter Gordon Anderson, Ottawa
J.H. Morrison DFC, Winnipeg remustered air gunner

RAF: Richard H.V.C. Cranborne

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No. 9 EFTS: Coyne, Frayn

No. 10 EFTS: McLean

No. 12 EFTS: Bruyns, Roth

Wilson George Leach - Course 77

Wilson was born in Chalk River, Ontario. Following Second World War service as a Pilot Instructor, he entered the University of Western Ontario, graduating in Medicine in 1952. Wilson rejoined the RCAF and completed post-graduate training in biophysics in London before joining the Institute of Aviation Medicine in Toronto. As a result of his research in high altitude physiology, he was awarded the McKee Trans-Canada Trophy in 1960 and subsequently, in 1974, was inducted into the Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame. After his years of work in research he was employed at National Defence Headquarters, Ottawa as Director of Medical Personnel, Deputy Surgeon General, and Surgeon General of the Canadian Forces.