RCAF Station Calgary
No. 2 Wireless School
General Information
Base / Station: Calgary (No 2 Wireless School)
Province: Alberta
Dates of Operation or Period of Information:
- 1940-1945
Units:
- No 2 Wireless School
Aircraft Flown:
Commanding Officers:
Financial Impact:
Current Status:
- Reverted back to the Provincial Government at the end of the war. The facility is now the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Facebook Photo from David Wagner
Location – Google Map
Station Magazine
“The W.A.G. Signal”
Daily Diary – Links – No. 2 Wireless School
Fatalities –
This list was compiled from the entries in the Daily diaries of No 2 Wireless School and other sources. The list likely does not include all fatalities of personnel who died while stationed at RCAF Station Calgary, and likely includes some errors. Currently this list contains 25 personnel.
14 November 1940
10 September 1941
10 November 1941
11 December 1941
10 May 1942
9 September 1942
24 September 1942
14 April 1943
8 May 1943
29 September 1943
29 October 1943
20 April 1944
12 May 1944
- Sgt Thomas Donnachie
- P/O Irvin Trevor Scheelar
7 August 1944
6 September 1944
20 September 1944
- Sgt Joseph Franklin Law
- LAC John Primok
22 October 1944
Aircraft List –
Fleet Fort
3586
3593
3596
3650
Tiger Moth
4833
4837
Harvard
FH161
Yale
3346
3398
Course List
No 2 Wireless School
For More information – External Links
- Wikipedia
- MilitaryBruce.com – Canadian Military History by Bruce Forsyth
- http://www.bcatp.org/108-no-2-wireless-school-calgary
- https://bcatp.wordpress.com/2018/11/29/no-2-wireless-school/
- https://clarencesimonsen745590793.wordpress.com/2018/11/21/no-2-wireless-school-draft-pdf-version/
- https://www.sait.ca/alumni/link-magazine/link-stories/link-stories/looking-back-%E2%80%94-the-no-2-wireless-training-school
- Facility Disposal File:
Other Sources:
Thanks for this. My father had been an amateur radio operator before the war & became an early wireless instructor & a WAG at RCAF Calgary. He was taken as a student from the Wireless school in Montreal & seconded to the Battle of the Atlantic in Mont Jolie, Gaspe Quebec. From there he spent the remainder of the war at #2 Wireless Training School Calgary. After which he graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 1949, returning to the RCAF during Korea. Retiring in 1973 he obtained a BED & taught Math & Sciences at a Junior College for another 13 years.
Thank you for comment, and for sharing your family history. Keep an eye on the pages, there will likely be more added
Sept 24, Hi, My father was at No.2 wireless school as a member of the Australian Airforce (RAAF). Thank you for this great resource on the school
Tony