1 AOS's Avro Anson (#AX347) aircraft, engaged in a routine navigation flight, crashed near Garden Hill, Ontario, taking the lives of the four members of the Anson's aircrew.
The airmen who perished in this accident were-
RNZAF Sergeant Patrick Maurice BUTLER,
RAFVR Leading Aircraftman Edward Godfrey CARTER,
Polish Air Force Flying Officer Emil STYRSKI and
RCAF Warrant Officer Class II Harvey Chambers FREEMAN.
From the Canadian Virtual War Memorial-
Military Service:-
Rank: Warrant Officer Class II
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: R/114243
Age: 23
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: #1 Air Observers School (AOS); RCAF Melton, Ontario
Date and Place of Enlistment: 8 July 1941 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Son of Reverend Sebra Crooker Freeman and Carrie (nee Webber) Freeman of Parlakimedi, Orissa, India; husband of Esther H. Freeman (remarried Thorburn; father of Marion Louise of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
He was employed as a civilian training instructor under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, at Dominion Skyways (Training) Limited, at the time of his death.
Warrant Officer Class II Harvey Chambers Freeman is commemorated on Page 161 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
1 AOS's Avro Anson (#AX347) aircraft, engaged in a routine navigation flight, crashed near Garden Hill, Ontario, taking the lives of the four members of the Anson's aircrew.
The airmen who perished in this accident were-
RNZAF Sergeant Patrick Maurice BUTLER,
RAFVR Leading Aircraftman Edward Godfrey CARTER,
Polish Air Force Flying Officer Emil STYRSKI and
RCAF Warrant Officer Class II Harvey Chambers FREEMAN.
From the Canadian Virtual War Memorial-
Military Service:-
Rank: Warrant Officer Class II
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: R/114243
Age: 23
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: #1 Air Observers School (AOS); RCAF Melton, Ontario
Date and Place of Enlistment: 8 July 1941 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Son of Reverend Sebra Crooker Freeman and Carrie (nee Webber) Freeman of Parlakimedi, Orissa, India; husband of Esther H. Freeman (remarried Thorburn; father of Marion Louise of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
He was employed as a civilian training instructor under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, at Dominion Skyways (Training) Limited, at the time of his death.
Warrant Officer Class II Harvey Chambers Freeman is commemorated on Page 161 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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"HE THAT LIVETH
AND BELIEVETH IN ME
SHALL NEVER DIE."
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