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: Leading Aircraftman
Trade: Wireless Operator (Ground)
Service Number: R/174974
Age: 23
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Unit: 145 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron
Son of Guerney Russell Leard and Clara Mabel (née Lockerby) Leard of Fortune Cove, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Leading Aircraftman William Godfrey Leard is commemorated on Page 361 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
And he is remembered with love and honour on a family grave monument in the
Cascumpeque United Methodist Cemetery in Prince Edward Island.
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: Leading Aircraftman
Trade: Wireless Operator (Ground)
Service Number: R/174974
Age: 23
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Unit: 145 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron
Son of Guerney Russell Leard and Clara Mabel (née Lockerby) Leard of Fortune Cove, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Leading Aircraftman William Godfrey Leard is commemorated on Page 361 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
And he is remembered with love and honour on a family grave monument in the
Cascumpeque United Methodist Cemetery in Prince Edward Island.
Inscription
(Epitaph...)
THE SOULS OF THE RIGHTEOUS
ARE IN THE HAND OF GOD
AND THEY ARE IN PEACE.
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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