No 15 Service Flying Training School
Course 100

Students Arrived: 

Start Date: 24 February 1944

Grad Dinner: 25 August 1944

Graduation Parade: 25 August 1944

Graduation Date: 25 August 1994

RCAF Station Claresholm

Nominal Role

  • Jack Cummings
  • Keith Elliott
  • Arnold “Butch” Fletcher
  • David George Kelly-hood
  • Alfhed “Waterton” Kiss
  • John Laycock
  • Arthur Layton
  • F/L L. “Larry” G. Lewis, DFM
    • Honour Student
    • Graduate
  • Henry Charles Linck
  • Ernest “Locky” Lockyer
  • Malcolm “Age” Lowe
  • Donald Lunam
  • Jack Lyons
  • Grant MacPherson
  • George Mainey
  • John Manfield
  • Bill Marriott
  • Charles Martin
  • George “Swede” Martin
  • Sgt Arthur E. McVay (MacVay)
    • Married the day after graduation to LAW T.R. McConnell
    • Graduated
  • Len “Get-Stuffed” Medley
  • Tony Mellows
  • Cyril Mennell
  • Fleming Stuart Messum
  • John “Chuck”Moore
  • Tim Moxon
  • “Gopher Joe” Murray
  • Cpl “Doug”Neeves
  • Bill Nicholls
  • Stanley “Pop” Nuttall
  • L.G. Oakley
  • Bill O’Gorman
  • Arnold “Pherson” Peterson
  • Sgt Mack Richards
  • Sgt M. Richards
    • Had his father, F/L P.E. Richards pin on his wings
    • Distinguished graduate
  • Sgt William Robinson
  • Bill “The Haggis-Bashin Scot” Sampson
  • Cyril “Squirrel” Sayer
  • Don Shepley
  • Sgt Ronald “Typhoid” Thurston
  • Johnny Vickers
  • F/L “Johnny” Wickens
  • Frank “Woody” Woodhead
  • “Les” Worrad

Course Strength

No of Personnel
Original Intake61
Transferred from previous course8
Transferred to subsequent course5
Wastage8
Killed in Flying accident
Total graduates56

Commissions

No of Personnel
Total15

Postings

No of Personnel
No 1 General Reconnaissance School
Summerside, Prince Edward Island
2
No 1 Aircrew Graduate Training School
Maitland, Nova Scotia
7
No 2 Aircrew Graduate Training School
Calgary, Alberta
4
No 3 Aircrew Graduate Training School
Three Rivers, Quebec
21
No 6 Operational Training Unit
Comox, British Columbia
1
No 31 Personnel Depot
Moncton, New Brunswick
19
No 1 “Y” Depot
Lachine, Quebec
3
Wastage
Total
Our Wings – The Story of Course 100, No 15 SFTS, Claresholm, Alberta.
Source: Bruce Richards. Son Of Mack Richards.

Notes

  • Wings were presented by
  • Wastage remustered to:
    • ?
  • 1 Royal Australian Air Force was not posted at Graduation Due to Hospitalization.

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