No 34 (RAF) Operational Training Unit
Course 1
Special thank you to G. Christian Larsen who provided most of the information on this page.
Students Arrived:
Start Date: 8 June 1942
Course moved to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia:
- 29 August 1942 – 9 September 1942
Grad Dinner:
Graduation Date: 11 September 1942
Pennfield Ridge, New Brunswick
Nominal Role
- Sergeant Eric James Andrew
- Sergeant Frederick John MacKenzie Ashdown
- Sergeant Harvey John Austin
- Sergeant Albert George Baker
- Sergeant Eric Bateson
- Sergeant L.M. Bentley
- Sergeant Jessie Edmiston Bigelow
- Sergeant Bernard John Buxton
- Sergeant George Christopher Curruthers
- Sergeant D.R. Cody
- Pilot Officer William Reginald Neil Cook
- Sergeant W. Edwards
- Sergeant Alan Bernard Emmott
- Pilot Officer Charles Thomas Flaherty
- Pilot Officer George William Forman
- Sergeant John William Fox
- Sergeant C.F. Gordon
- Sergeant Laurence Gordon John Gough
- Sergeant J.J. Greer
- Sergeant L. Head
- Sergeant Stanley Jennings
- Sergeant Marshall Levi Jones
- Sergeant Clarence Gerald Kernaghan
- Sergeant Lloyd Kirstine
- Sergeant Joseph Stanley Laidlaw
- Sergeant Peter George Patrick Loubert
- Sergeant James William Lowe
- Sergeant James Cunningham Lynass
- Sergeant William “Alex” Lyttle
- Sergeant Harold Otho Male
- Sergeant L.G. McAllister
- Sergeant J. Kenneth McConnell
- Sergeant Donald Gillespie “Don” McGregor
- Sergeant Gerald Baird McKennie
- Sergeant W.G. McLelland
- Sergeant James Archibald Menzies
- Sergeant Maurice Neil Mitchell
- Sergeant Arthur Robert Moorby
- Sergeant Arthur G.A. Morrison
- Pilot Officer Leslie Nicholson Munroe
- Sergeant Francis Joseph “Frank” Myers
- Sergeant John Maxwell Nichols
- Sergeant Desmond William Julian Odlum
- Sergeant William Arthur Pedlar
- Sergeant Harold Cruse Pithie
- Sergeant Kevin Thomas Quirke
- Pilot Officer Frederick Reader
- Sergeant E.J. Reynolds
- Sergeant John Robertson
- Sergeant Arthur Settle
- Pilot Officer Ernest Charles Shaffer
- Sergeant James Henry “Jim” Smith
- Sergeant Arthur James Steedman
- Sergeant Harry Wallace Toombs
- Sergeant Dalton James Kenneth Wallace
- Sergeant Thomas George Watmore
- Sergeant Ronald Herbert Wells
- Sergeant F.H. Wheeler
- Sergeant H.J. Wood
- Sergeant Joseph Stanley Yurkowski
Course Strength
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Commissions
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Postings
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Source
School Daily Diary

Jessie Edmiston BIGELOW
George Christopher CURRUTHERS
J. Kenneth McCONNELL
Maurice Neil MITCHELL
James Henry (Jim) SMITH
Arthur James STEEDMAN
Harry Wallace TOOMBS (not Tooms)
Thomas George WATMORE
Christian,
Thank you again for the updates and corrections… I think I have them all implemented.
Nathan