Location: Haldimand County N 42 52.610 W 79 35.393
On the grounds of the former Dunnville Airport, on Port Maitland Road.
This fantastic memorial is a tribute to the contribution made by the various flight schools that comprised the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan during World War II. The memorial consists of a Harvard Trainer, similar to the type used by many of these schools, the flags of Commonwealth nations whose pilots trained here, and four stone memorials.
The four stone memorials represent the No.6 Service Flying Training School here in Dunnville, the No.16 Service Flying Training School in Hagersville, the No.1 Bombing and Gunnery School in Jarvis, and finally a tribute to the Civil Engineers that constructed the 176 airfields needed for this massive yet vital training service to support the war effort.
On the grounds of the this former airport is also a wonderful museum dedicated to the Air Training Plan. The airport itself closed recently with the erection of nearby wind turbines, another slap in the face to our heritage and to the local citizens and flyers. I highly recommend visiting this museum if you are in the area. I will post a separate entry for the museum at a later date.
The memorial also acts as a reminder of how many lives were lost here on our home soil in training, poor lads who never even go into the fight.
Marker text:
Civil Engineers:
NATIONAL HISTORIC
CIVIL ENGINEERING SITE
BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AIR TRAINING PLAN
No. 6 SERVICE FLYING TRAINING SCHOOL - DUNNVILLE
A TRIBUTE TO CANADA'S CIVIL ENGINEERS WHO,
BETWEEN 1940 AND 1943, WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR
THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF 88 AIRFIELDS
AND 88 RELIEF FIELDS, TOGETHER WITH ALL THE
REQUISITE INFRASTRUCTURE.
THE AIRFIELDS WERE REQUIRED BY THE BRITISH
COMMONWEALTH AIR TRAINING PLAN WHICH
TRAINED MORE THAN 250,000 PERSONNEL, OF
WHOM 131,000 WERE AIRCREW, FOR THE ALLIED
WAR EFFORT. THIS FIELD, DUNNVILLE AIRPORT,
WAS THE SITE OF No.6 SERVICE FLYING TRAINING
SCHOOL.
CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR
CIVIL ENGINEERING
2003
Jarvis Stone:
NO. 1 BOMBING AND GUNNERY SCHOOL
R.C.A.F. JARVIS
WAS A UNIT OF THE BRITISH COMMANWEALTH
AIR TRAINING PLAN, THE 39 MEN NAMED ON THIS PLAQUE
LOST THEIR LIVES SERVING AT JARVIS.
IN REMEMBERANCE OF
ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
F/O E.J. BOUNDS
LAC J.A.W. BOYD
LAC G.C. BURKE
LAC H. BURNEP
AC2 P.J. DEEBANK
CPL W.C. DOAN
LAC J.S.W. GRAY
P/O J.H. GREEN
SGT F.J. HAWKE
LAC A.R. HAYES
LAC J.A. HOLGATE
LAC F.E. INNES
SGT G.R. JACKSON
LAC J.H. KEARNEY
LAC R.W.G. KILLICK
LAC W.M. KIRKBY
LAC J.A. LeFURGEY
SGT R.N. McCRANK
AC2 I.B. MOREHOUSE
F/O E.B. NORBURY
F/O T.H. PERLEY-MARTIN
F/O M.B. POOLE
LAC A.C. REED
LAC H.P. SAMUEL
LAC S. SCHWARTZ
LAC J.A. SMITH
F/S G.R. TROUTBECK
LAC G.N. WINFIELD
ROYAL AIR FORCE
LAC F.G. BARBER
LAC G.C. BEST
SGT N. WADE
LAC R. WALLER
LAC J.S. WILLIAMS
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE
LAC R. McNABB
P/O K. SLATER
LAC C. TAGGART
F/S J.B. WATTS
ROYAL NEW ZEALAND AIR FORCE
SGT J.W. WHITEHEAD
CIVILIAN - HARRY BULLOCK
LEST WE FORGET
Hagersville stone:
NO. 16 SERVICE FLYING TRAINING SCHOOL
R.C.A.F. HAGERSVILLE ONT.
A UNIT OF THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH
AIR TRAINING PLAN WAS DEDICATED
IN 1941 AND SERVED AS A TWIN AND
SINGLE ENGINE PILOT TRAINING SCHOOL
THE 16 AIRMEN NAMED ON THIS PLAQUE
LOST THEIR LIVES WHILE SERVING AT THIS SCHOOL.
IN REMEMBERANCE OF
LAC F.R. COOK
LAC G.H. McLURE
LAC H.W.H. PARTLOW
LAC J.N. FORST
LAC O.K. NICKERSON
P/O J. CASKIE
LAC L.C. JONES
LAC R.B. STEELMAN
LAC G.B. TAYLOR
LAC H.J. LEE
LAC F.V. STEPHENS
LAC SMILEY
F/L S.G.N. GROVE
SGT H.G.R. DRAKE
F/L J.H. CHANDLER
LAC T.O.C. POUYAT (RAF)
LEST WE FORGET
Dunnville stone:
BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AIR TRAINING PLAN
NO. 6 SERVICE FLYING TRAINING SCHOOL - DUNNVILLE
1940 - 1944
THIS MEMORIAL IS IN RECOGNITION OF
ALL THOSE WHO SERVED AT NO.6 S.F.T.S.
ALSO IN MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING WHO LOST
THEIR LIVES WHILE STATIONED AT THIS BASE
ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
P/O ANGUS, ALEXANDER
F/O BALDWIN, JESSE
LAC BENNIMAN, DONALD
LAC BILKEY, JAMES
LAC BLAIR, FREDERICK
LAC CONNORS, HERBERT
LAC DAVIDSON, ROBERT
W.O.1 DEAN, LLOYD
F/L DUNSTAN, ARTHUR
LAC FLEMING, MARSHALL
LAC GOUGH, CHARLES
LAC GUELICH, ALLISON
W.O.1 HERRON, MARVIN
LAC KENDALL, CLYDE
W.O.2 KIRK, NORMAN
P/O KLINTWORTH, RICHARD
W.O.1 LAWRENCE, ARTHUR
LAC MOORE, SYDNEY
P/O MCINTYRE, JAMES
LAC MCMARTIN, JOHN
F/O NAISMITH, ROSS
LAC O'CONNOR, PATRICK
LAC PANTING, REGINALD
F/SGT PATERSON, JOHN
ROYAL F/O PENN, LLOYD
SGT POMEROY, GEORGE
LAC POSTELWAITE, GEORGE
P/O QUINN, DOUGLAS
P/O ROY, WILLIAM
AC2 SCHARF, LYALL
P/O SCHATZ, SANDFORD
LAC SCHWATRZ, FRANK
LAC STEVENS, ROBERT
LAC STEWART, HAROLD
SGT STRICKLAND, PETER
LAC TAYLOR, WILLIAM
LAC TIBBETTS, WILMOT
ROYAL AIR FORCE
LAC SMITH, WILLIAM
LAC TENNIAN, JOHN
ROYAL NEW ZEALAND AIR FORCE
LAC GREEN, STANTON
LAC HAWORTH, JOHN
LAC RANKIN, ALASTAIR
LAC WILLIS, ALEXANDER
LAC WOOD, NOEL
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE
SGT ANDERSON, CLARENCE
F/SGT EVANS, BRIAN
P/O LEIGH, KENNETH
LEST WE FORGET
NO. 6 RCAF DUNNVILLE MUSEUM 1999 INC.
JULY 4, 2004
