The engine of 145 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron's Lockheed Ventura (#2171) aircraft failed on take-off, causing the aircraft to crash at Goose Bay, Labrador, and killing all five air crew members and all six passengers who were aboard.
The air crew servicemen who perished in this accident were:-
Pilot Officer William Arthur HARRIS,
Pilot Officer Donald William HUME,
Leading Aircraftman William Godfrey LEARD,
Pilot Officer John Charles TANNER and
Warrant Officer Class II Melville Stanley WOOD.
The servicemen passengers who perished in this accident were:-
Leading Aircraftman Henry Hedley BELL,
Corporal Clarence Nathan COLE,
Sergeant Myles Edward DUQUETTE,
Leading Aircraftman Harold Archibald STEPHENSON and
Leading Aircraftman Lionel Charles ST. LOUIS.
Military Service:-
Rank: Corporal
Service Number: R/64254
Age: 27
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 145 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron
An aero-engine mechanic, he had enlisted in the RCAF in 1940.
Son of Paul and Catherine Rose Foris of Britannia Avenue, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; husband of Rose Margaret (née Odor) Foris of Catherine Street Hamilton; father of one son.
Corporal Louis Charles Foris is commemorated on Page 307 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
The engine of 145 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron's Lockheed Ventura (#2171) aircraft failed on take-off, causing the aircraft to crash at Goose Bay, Labrador, and killing all five air crew members and all six passengers who were aboard.
The air crew servicemen who perished in this accident were:-
Pilot Officer William Arthur HARRIS,
Pilot Officer Donald William HUME,
Leading Aircraftman William Godfrey LEARD,
Pilot Officer John Charles TANNER and
Warrant Officer Class II Melville Stanley WOOD.
The servicemen passengers who perished in this accident were:-
Leading Aircraftman Henry Hedley BELL,
Corporal Clarence Nathan COLE,
Sergeant Myles Edward DUQUETTE,
Leading Aircraftman Harold Archibald STEPHENSON and
Leading Aircraftman Lionel Charles ST. LOUIS.
Military Service:-
Rank: Corporal
Service Number: R/64254
Age: 27
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 145 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron
An aero-engine mechanic, he had enlisted in the RCAF in 1940.
Son of Paul and Catherine Rose Foris of Britannia Avenue, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; husband of Rose Margaret (née Odor) Foris of Catherine Street Hamilton; father of one son.
Corporal Louis Charles Foris is commemorated on Page 307 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Inscription
(Epitaph...)
BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND
LOST THAN NEVER TO HAVE
LOVED AT ALL.
FORGET ME NOT.
Gravesite Details
In 1944, this cemetery..'Joint Services Cemetery'..was in the Dominion of Newfoundland, not in Canada. Newfoundland became the tenth Canadian province in 1949.
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Records on Ancestry
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UK, Commonwealth War Graves, 1914-1921 and 1939-1947
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Canada, World War II Records and Service Files of War Dead, 1939-1947
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Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948
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Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1939
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UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
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