Service Number: C/23502
Age: 32
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: #3 Service Flying Training School (Calgary, Alberta)
A service station supervisor by trade, he enlisted in the RCAF on Feb 27, 1941 in Calgary, Alberta.
Avro Anson V (#12478) aircraft, with six airmen on board, crashed 7 ½ miles north of Ponoka, Alberta. The Anson, based at RCAF Station Currie Field, Alberta, had flown into heavy turbulance which caused it to break apart in mid-air.
The other five airmen who perished in this accident were:-
RCAF Flight Lieutenant Louis Lynde Aide,
RCAF Flight Lieutenant Thomas Bernard Akin,
RCAF Flight Lieutenant Robert George Hodge,
RCAF Flying Officer George Joseph Sydney Overend and
RNZAF Sergeant Ivan Rex Stacey.
Son of Hector William Allan and of Isabel Marjorie (née Brock) Allan of Montreal, Quebec; husband of Dorothy Eleanor (nee Becker) Allan of Banff, Alberta.
Service Number: C/23502
Age: 32
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: #3 Service Flying Training School (Calgary, Alberta)
A service station supervisor by trade, he enlisted in the RCAF on Feb 27, 1941 in Calgary, Alberta.
Avro Anson V (#12478) aircraft, with six airmen on board, crashed 7 ½ miles north of Ponoka, Alberta. The Anson, based at RCAF Station Currie Field, Alberta, had flown into heavy turbulance which caused it to break apart in mid-air.
The other five airmen who perished in this accident were:-
RCAF Flight Lieutenant Louis Lynde Aide,
RCAF Flight Lieutenant Thomas Bernard Akin,
RCAF Flight Lieutenant Robert George Hodge,
RCAF Flying Officer George Joseph Sydney Overend and
RNZAF Sergeant Ivan Rex Stacey.
Son of Hector William Allan and of Isabel Marjorie (née Brock) Allan of Montreal, Quebec; husband of Dorothy Eleanor (nee Becker) Allan of Banff, Alberta.
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