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: Aero Engine Mechanic
Service Number: R/127526
Age: 25
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 145 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron
He enlisted in the RCAF on 12 August 1941 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Son of Norman John and Ethel May (née Hagerman) Stephenson of Tako, Saskatchewan, Canada [both parents born in Ontario]; husband of Mary U. Stephenson of Wilkie, Saskatchewan.
Leading Aircraftman Harold Archibald Stephenson is commemorated on Page 452 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: Leading Aircraftman
Trade: Aero Engine Mechanic
Service Number: R/127526
Age: 25
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 145 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron
He enlisted in the RCAF on 12 August 1941 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Son of Norman John and Ethel May (née Hagerman) Stephenson of Tako, Saskatchewan, Canada [both parents born in Ontario]; husband of Mary U. Stephenson of Wilkie, Saskatchewan.
Leading Aircraftman Harold Archibald Stephenson is commemorated on Page 452 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Inscription
(Epitaph...)
WITHOUT FAREWELL YOU
FELL ASLEEP
LEAVING JUST A MEMORY
FOR US TO KEEP
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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