#2 SFTS's North American Harvard (#3005) training aircraft was on a cross-country training flight when it crashed at Indian Island, Papineau Lake, Quebec, taking the lives of Leading Aircraftman David Harold ARMITAGE and Leading Aircraftman Albert James Joseph SINCLAIR.
From the Canadian Virtual War Memorial-
Military Service:-
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Trade: Pilot (Under Training)
Service Number: R/92416
Age: 24
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: #2 Service Flying Training School (SFTS); RCAF Uplands, Ontario
A University of British Columbia graduate and a teacher by trade, residing in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada, he enlisted in the RCAF on 1 March 1941 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Son of the Reverend Harold Joseph Armitage and Stella Maud (née Crouse) Armitage of Kaslo, British Columbia [father born in Yorkshire, England; mother born in Illinois, USA].
Leading Aircraftman David Harold Armitage is commemorated on Page 55 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
#2 SFTS's North American Harvard (#3005) training aircraft was on a cross-country training flight when it crashed at Indian Island, Papineau Lake, Quebec, taking the lives of Leading Aircraftman David Harold ARMITAGE and Leading Aircraftman Albert James Joseph SINCLAIR.
From the Canadian Virtual War Memorial-
Military Service:-
Rank: Leading Aircraftman
Trade: Pilot (Under Training)
Service Number: R/92416
Age: 24
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: #2 Service Flying Training School (SFTS); RCAF Uplands, Ontario
A University of British Columbia graduate and a teacher by trade, residing in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada, he enlisted in the RCAF on 1 March 1941 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Son of the Reverend Harold Joseph Armitage and Stella Maud (née Crouse) Armitage of Kaslo, British Columbia [father born in Yorkshire, England; mother born in Illinois, USA].
Leading Aircraftman David Harold Armitage is commemorated on Page 55 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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