Military Service-
Service Number: J/9131
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Pilot Officer / Wireless Operator - Air Gunner.
A drug store attendant and clerk by trade, Richard enlisted in the RCAF on Mar 3, 1941 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
He was a crew member on Supermarine Stranraer #927 aircraft (a 'flying boat') which was on an operational patrol when a water landing was attempted. Unfavourable weather with high winds had produced ten-foot waves, so the aircraft crashed, sinking in the water at the entrance to Nanoose Bay in Vancouver, British Columbia, and taking the lives of all the crew.
The other members of the crew were:
Flight Lieutenant Donald Clark MacDougall
Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Albert Blakely
Aircraftman 1st Class Robert William Adams
Leading Aircraftman William Dennis Riley
Sergeant Russell Tremaine Mitchell
Sergeant John Cunningham Gunn
Sergeant Gordon Herbert Andrews
Son of Mary (nee Anderson) Wood of St. Vital, Manitoba, and the late Richard Wood; husband of Patricia Wood of Norwood, Manitoba.
Service Number: J/9131
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Pilot Officer / Wireless Operator - Air Gunner.
A drug store attendant and clerk by trade, Richard enlisted in the RCAF on Mar 3, 1941 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
He was a crew member on Supermarine Stranraer #927 aircraft (a 'flying boat') which was on an operational patrol when a water landing was attempted. Unfavourable weather with high winds had produced ten-foot waves, so the aircraft crashed, sinking in the water at the entrance to Nanoose Bay in Vancouver, British Columbia, and taking the lives of all the crew.
The other members of the crew were:
Flight Lieutenant Donald Clark MacDougall
Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Albert Blakely
Aircraftman 1st Class Robert William Adams
Leading Aircraftman William Dennis Riley
Sergeant Russell Tremaine Mitchell
Sergeant John Cunningham Gunn
Sergeant Gordon Herbert Andrews
Son of Mary (nee Anderson) Wood of St. Vital, Manitoba, and the late Richard Wood; husband of Patricia Wood of Norwood, Manitoba.
Military Service-
Service Number: J/9131
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Pilot Officer / Wireless Operator - Air Gunner.
A drug store attendant and clerk by trade, Richard enlisted in the RCAF on Mar 3, 1941 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
He was a crew member on Supermarine Stranraer #927 aircraft (a 'flying boat') which was on an operational patrol when a water landing was attempted. Unfavourable weather with high winds had produced ten-foot waves, so the aircraft crashed, sinking in the water at the entrance to Nanoose Bay in Vancouver, British Columbia, and taking the lives of all the crew.
The other members of the crew were:
Flight Lieutenant Donald Clark MacDougall
Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Albert Blakely
Aircraftman 1st Class Robert William Adams
Leading Aircraftman William Dennis Riley
Sergeant Russell Tremaine Mitchell
Sergeant John Cunningham Gunn
Sergeant Gordon Herbert Andrews
Son of Mary (nee Anderson) Wood of St. Vital, Manitoba, and the late Richard Wood; husband of Patricia Wood of Norwood, Manitoba.
Service Number: J/9131
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Pilot Officer / Wireless Operator - Air Gunner.
A drug store attendant and clerk by trade, Richard enlisted in the RCAF on Mar 3, 1941 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
He was a crew member on Supermarine Stranraer #927 aircraft (a 'flying boat') which was on an operational patrol when a water landing was attempted. Unfavourable weather with high winds had produced ten-foot waves, so the aircraft crashed, sinking in the water at the entrance to Nanoose Bay in Vancouver, British Columbia, and taking the lives of all the crew.
The other members of the crew were:
Flight Lieutenant Donald Clark MacDougall
Aircraftman 1st Class Robert Albert Blakely
Aircraftman 1st Class Robert William Adams
Leading Aircraftman William Dennis Riley
Sergeant Russell Tremaine Mitchell
Sergeant John Cunningham Gunn
Sergeant Gordon Herbert Andrews
Son of Mary (nee Anderson) Wood of St. Vital, Manitoba, and the late Richard Wood; husband of Patricia Wood of Norwood, Manitoba.
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