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: Sergeant
Service Number: R/87689
Age: 24
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Unit: N0. 13 OT
A grocery clerk by trade, residing in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, he enlisted in the RCAF on 8 Jan 1941 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Son of hardware merchant Harold Samuel and Alice Mary (née Woodside) Andrews of Abbotsford; brother of Harold Andrews.
Sergeant Gordon Herbert Andrews is commemorated on Page 22 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
There is a mountain in British Columbia near the crash site that is named to honour the memory of Sergeant Andrews.
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: Sergeant
Service Number: R/87689
Age: 24
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Unit: N0. 13 OT
A grocery clerk by trade, residing in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, he enlisted in the RCAF on 8 Jan 1941 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Son of hardware merchant Harold Samuel and Alice Mary (née Woodside) Andrews of Abbotsford; brother of Harold Andrews.
Sergeant Gordon Herbert Andrews is commemorated on Page 22 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
There is a mountain in British Columbia near the crash site that is named to honour the memory of Sergeant Andrews.
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