Sergeant Jewitt was one of two airmen killed in the crash of #1 EFTS's Fleet Finch (#4441) aircraft. The accident was the result of a mid-air collision with another Finch aircraft on the approach to landing at the Malton airfield. Leading Aircraftman Charles Richard DICKIE also perished in this incident.
Military Service:-
Rank: Sergeant
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: R/69610
Age: 22
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: #1 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) [Malton, Ontario]
A flying instructor by trade, residing in Hornings Mills, Ontario, Canada he enlisted in the RCAF on 25 June 1940 in Toronto, Ontario.
Son of the Reverend Thomas John Jewitt and Edith Muriel (née Burgess) Jewitt of Hornings Mills, Ontario, Canada.
Sergeant Robson Thomas Jewitt is commemorated on Page 14 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Sergeant Jewitt was one of two airmen killed in the crash of #1 EFTS's Fleet Finch (#4441) aircraft. The accident was the result of a mid-air collision with another Finch aircraft on the approach to landing at the Malton airfield. Leading Aircraftman Charles Richard DICKIE also perished in this incident.
Military Service:-
Rank: Sergeant
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: R/69610
Age: 22
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: #1 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) [Malton, Ontario]
A flying instructor by trade, residing in Hornings Mills, Ontario, Canada he enlisted in the RCAF on 25 June 1940 in Toronto, Ontario.
Son of the Reverend Thomas John Jewitt and Edith Muriel (née Burgess) Jewitt of Hornings Mills, Ontario, Canada.
Sergeant Robson Thomas Jewitt is commemorated on Page 14 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Inscription
JEWITT
THOMAS J. JEWITT
MAR. 19, 1877 – AUG. 26, 1972
BELOVED HUSBAND OF
EDITH BURGESS
MAY 9, 1895 – MAY 11, 1979
ROBSON THOMAS JEWITT
MAR. 15, 1918 – DEC. 22, 1940
R. 69610 SGT. R. C. A. F. INSTRUCTOR
DEATH, RESULT OF FLYING ACCIDENT.
DONALD ARTHUR JEWITT
FEB. 11, 1920 – JULY 1, 1987
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