1912 Sept Quarter birth "registration"-
Name: Drayton, Denis A---Mother's Maiden Name: Barnfield
District: Mile End [Vol & Page: 1c & 701]
33 ANS's Avro Anson I (W1672) aircraft, with an aircrew of five, was on a cross country navigation training flight when it struck Caledon Mountain and crashed, taking the lives of three members of the crew and injuring the two other airmen.
The airmen who perished in this accident were-
RAFVR Leading Aircraftman Dennis DONAHUE,
RAFVR Leading Aircraftman Denis Albert DRAYTON and
RAFVR Leading Aircraftman Reginald Allan GILLMAN.
Military Service:-
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Service No: 1262954
Age: 29
Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Division: 33 Air Navigation School; RCAF Mount Hope, Ontario
This airman was one of the Royal Air Force personnel who were killed while training at No. 33 Air Navigation School near Hamilton, Ontario.
Son of Albert William and Lilian Emily (née Barnfield) Drayton of Claygate, Surrey, England [they married in 1907].
He is commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
1912 Sept Quarter birth "registration"-
Name: Drayton, Denis A---Mother's Maiden Name: Barnfield
District: Mile End [Vol & Page: 1c & 701]
33 ANS's Avro Anson I (W1672) aircraft, with an aircrew of five, was on a cross country navigation training flight when it struck Caledon Mountain and crashed, taking the lives of three members of the crew and injuring the two other airmen.
The airmen who perished in this accident were-
RAFVR Leading Aircraftman Dennis DONAHUE,
RAFVR Leading Aircraftman Denis Albert DRAYTON and
RAFVR Leading Aircraftman Reginald Allan GILLMAN.
Military Service:-
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Service No: 1262954
Age: 29
Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Division: 33 Air Navigation School; RCAF Mount Hope, Ontario
This airman was one of the Royal Air Force personnel who were killed while training at No. 33 Air Navigation School near Hamilton, Ontario.
Son of Albert William and Lilian Emily (née Barnfield) Drayton of Claygate, Surrey, England [they married in 1907].
He is commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Inscription
(Epitaph...)
BECAUSE I LIVE
YE SHALL LIVE ALSO.
JOHN 14: VERSE 19
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Records on Ancestry
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UK, Commonwealth War Graves, 1914-1921 and 1939-1947
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Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths Overseas, 1869-1950
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UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
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Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948
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London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1923
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