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Dunnville, Ontario

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Virtual visit to No. 6 S.F.T.S. Dunnville, Ontario

Lest We Forget

I don’t travel much, but when I do, I take a lot of pictures.

And I mean a lot…

These pictures where taken in September 2011 when I went to visit Cricket 34 in Hamilton.

Cricket 34 is George Stewart.

Cricket 34 is George Stewart’s call sign.

I met George because Peter Smith met him in 2010 and said I had to meet him someday.

That day came in September 2011.

I don’t have a picture of George and me… only five and a half hours of pure selfish pleasure talking to him in his living room.

On another note, I never met Flight Lieutenant Jenkins’ daughter personally.

We know each other by each other’s blogs.

You see Flight Lieutenant Tommy Smith, Peter Smith’s father, knews Flight Lieutenant Eugene Gagnon and Flight Lieutenant George Stewart.

The three were No. 23 Squadron pilots.

Flight Lieutenant Jenkins was not a No. 23…

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Who Remembers Joseph Simpson Shaw?

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Searching for a pilot who maybe had his training in Canada

Lest We Forget

His nephew Robert Harris whose father was Eugene Gagnon’s Navigator.

Joseph Simpson Shaw who joined the RAF with my father straight out of University.  He was killed on 17th September 1942 on a raid over Essen and is buried in the Reichswald War Cemetery on the Belgian/German border. He was a Pilot Officer and was the pilot of a Wellington 1C with 15 OTU based at RAF Harwell, Oxfordshire and I believe this was his first mission.  I remember being told that he trained in Canada.  His service number was 120603.

Searching for people who might be related somehow to Pilot Officer Joseph Simpson Shaw.

Information on the Internet about that Pilot Officer.

The mission he flew on…

http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/sep42.html

16/17 September 1942

Essen

369 aircraft, including aircraft from the training groups. 39 aircraft

– 21 Wellingtons, 9 Lancasters, 5 Stirlings, 3 Halifaxes, 1 Whitley

– lost, 10.6 per cent of the force.

Although…

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