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: Pilot Officer
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: J/43174
Age: 30
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 145 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron
A diamond driller by trade, he enlisted in the RCAF on 25 Sept 1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Son of Charles Albert Tanner and Laura Winnifred (née Hyndman) Tanner of Winnipeg; husband of Edna M. Tanner of Winnipeg.
Pilot Officer John Charles Tanner is commemorated on Page 458 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: Pilot Officer
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: J/43174
Age: 30
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 145 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron
A diamond driller by trade, he enlisted in the RCAF on 25 Sept 1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Son of Charles Albert Tanner and Laura Winnifred (née Hyndman) Tanner of Winnipeg; husband of Edna M. Tanner of Winnipeg.
Pilot Officer John Charles Tanner is commemorated on Page 458 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Inscription
(Epitaph...)
THERE IS A LINK DEATH
CANNOT SEVER.
LOVE AND REMEMBRANCE
LAST FOREVER.
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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