ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 144920
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| Date: | Thursday 20 November 1941 |
| Time: | 21:17 |
| Type: |  Avro Anson Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 31 GRS (Canada) RAF |
| Registration: | N4894 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Gulf of St. Lawrence nr Waterford PEI -
 Canada
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RCAF Chatham, NB |
| RCAF Charlottetown, PEI |
First date: 9 May 1941 - Taken on charge at Canada Car & Foundry, Amherst, NS.
To No. 3 Training Command on 11 July 1941, for use by No. 31 (GRS) General Reconnaissance School at Charlottetown, PEI. Winter conversion kit installed by 22 August 1941. To Eastern Air Command with 31 GRS on 5 November 1941.
Anson N4894 was on a night navigation exercise from Charlottetown with a crew of four RAFVR members, 20-NOV-1941. It had landed at RCAF Chatham NB but departed without refueling or contacting home base Charlottetown. The aircraft was not heard from again. On the 24-NOV-1941, wreckage washed up on the north shore of PEI near Waterford and was later identified as Anson N4894. Waterford is on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, approximately 60 mi east of Chatham and 70 miles NW of Charlottetown. The bodies of the crew were never found. Their names are listed on the Ottawa Memorial, Canada.
The RAFVR crew that perished in Anson N4894
PO Alfred J. Freeman 1192746 (P)
LAC Stanley V. Clench 1186224 (OP)
LAC Norman J. Ficken 1332957 (OP)
AC1 Norman W. Thomas 982678 (WOP)
last date: 10 March 1942 - Struck off after crash.
Sources:
Charlottetown Guardian, November 22, 1941, p3 / Nov 25, p1
https://islandnewspapers.ca/islandora/object/guardian%3A19411122
https://islandnewspapers.ca/islandora/object/guardian%3A19411125
https://caspir.warplane.com/crashcards_pdf/0005/00000112.pdf
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=N4894
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Apr-2012 16:35 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 11-Oct-2013 08:13 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 15-Feb-2021 10:41 | Xindel | Updated [Location, Destination airport, Source, Operator] |
| 12-May-2023 05:58 | Cosmo | Updated [[Location, Destination airport, Source, Operator]] |
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