Supermarine Stranraer (#927) aircraft (a 'flying boat') and its crew of eight airmen were 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 aircrew.
The eight airmen who perished in this accident 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.
Military Service-
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Service Number: C/549
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Son of John Wesley MacDougall and Sarah Effie (née Munger) MacDougall; brother of
Dr. John A. MacDOUGALL and Mrs. Margaret Robinson of Bellingham, Washington, USA.
Flight Lieutenant Donald Clark MacDougall is commemorated on Page 36 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Supermarine Stranraer (#927) aircraft (a 'flying boat') and its crew of eight airmen were 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 aircrew.
The eight airmen who perished in this accident 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.
Military Service-
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Service Number: C/549
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Son of John Wesley MacDougall and Sarah Effie (née Munger) MacDougall; brother of
Dr. John A. MacDOUGALL and Mrs. Margaret Robinson of Bellingham, Washington, USA.
Flight Lieutenant Donald Clark MacDougall is commemorated on Page 36 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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