Military Service Number: R/85323; Age: 20; Royal Canadian Air Force
Son of Mr. and Mrs. George Andrew Blakely, of Kamsack.
The Geographic Memorial for Robert Blakely is Blakely Lake, Saskatchewan on the Northwest Territories border north of Stony Rapids (74P13) 59.59, 105.39
Following provided by Contributor 46864594.
Division: #13 Operational Training Squadron [Patricia Bay, British Columbia]
Supermarine Stranraer (#927) aircraft (a ‘flying boat’) and its crew of eight airmen were on an operational patrol, when a water landing was attempted. Unfavorable 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 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 Richard WOOD and
Sergeant Gordon Herbert ANDREWS.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. George Andrew Blakely, of Kamsack.
The Geographic Memorial for Robert Blakely is Blakely Lake, Saskatchewan on the Northwest Territories border north of Stony Rapids (74P13) 59.59, 105.39
Following provided by Contributor 46864594.
Division: #13 Operational Training Squadron [Patricia Bay, British Columbia]
Supermarine Stranraer (#927) aircraft (a ‘flying boat’) and its crew of eight airmen were on an operational patrol, when a water landing was attempted. Unfavorable 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 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 Richard WOOD and
Sergeant Gordon Herbert ANDREWS.
Military Service Number: R/85323; Age: 20; Royal Canadian Air Force
Son of Mr. and Mrs. George Andrew Blakely, of Kamsack.
The Geographic Memorial for Robert Blakely is Blakely Lake, Saskatchewan on the Northwest Territories border north of Stony Rapids (74P13) 59.59, 105.39
Following provided by Contributor 46864594.
Division: #13 Operational Training Squadron [Patricia Bay, British Columbia]
Supermarine Stranraer (#927) aircraft (a ‘flying boat’) and its crew of eight airmen were on an operational patrol, when a water landing was attempted. Unfavorable 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 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 Richard WOOD and
Sergeant Gordon Herbert ANDREWS.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. George Andrew Blakely, of Kamsack.
The Geographic Memorial for Robert Blakely is Blakely Lake, Saskatchewan on the Northwest Territories border north of Stony Rapids (74P13) 59.59, 105.39
Following provided by Contributor 46864594.
Division: #13 Operational Training Squadron [Patricia Bay, British Columbia]
Supermarine Stranraer (#927) aircraft (a ‘flying boat’) and its crew of eight airmen were on an operational patrol, when a water landing was attempted. Unfavorable 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 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 Richard WOOD and
Sergeant Gordon Herbert ANDREWS.
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