RCAF Station Medicine Hat
General Information
Base / Station: Medicine Hat
Province: Alberta
Dates of Operation or Period of Information: 1941-44
Units:
- No.34 Service Flying Training School
- No 10 SEHU
- No 102 REMS
- Primary Relief Landing Field – Holsom (R1)
- Secondary Relief Landing Field – Whitla (R2)
Aircraft Flown:
- Harvard,
- Lysander,
- Oxford,
- Tiger Moth
Commanding Officers:
- Group Captain C A. Ellis at station opening
Financial Impact:
Date / Reason for Closure: 17 November 1944, reduced need for aircrew
Image from the
RCAF Pilots Manual of Aerodromes and Seaplane Bases
circa 1942.
Current Status: civilian airfield, 2 runways still active, others exist, some taxiways and ramp, some hangar foundations and 1 base building
Location – Google Map
Photo Gallery
Facebook Photo from David Gale
Facebook Photo from David Gale
Station Magazine
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Daily Diary – Links – No. 34 Service Flying Training School
Fatalities
This list was compiled from the entries in the Daily diaries of No. 34 Service Flying Training School and other sources. The list likely does not include all fatalities of personnel who died while stationed at RCAF Station Medicine Hat, and likely includes some errors. Currently this list contains 48 personnel.
28 April 1941
- F/O Alexander Francis Michael MacLean
- LAC Eric Walton
16 May 1941
- LAC Stanley Knight Yeomans
23 May 1941
- P/O Robert Edward Sears
- LAC Colin Higson Wylde
3 July 1941
- LAC Bernard Albert Belcher
- F/O Bertram Charles Hollins Simms
16 July 1941
- LAC Donald Leslie Kennedy
- F/L Phineas John Lea
- F/O Allen Alexander Purkiss-Ginn
16 September 1941
- LAC Barrington Vincent Castle
8 December 1941
- LAC James Pryor
8 January 1942
- P/O George Forrester Squire Mackie
- LAC Alexander Ward Robinson
22 January 1942
- P/O John Green Hoar
- LAC Eric Thomas Markham
13 February 1942
- LAC Jack Arthur Fox
15 May 1942
- LAC George William Martin Duncan
- LAC Archibald Athron Ford
31 May 1942
- Cpl Rene Leprou
15 November 1942
- LAC Donald Charles Stacey
11 or 12 March 1943
- AC1 Michael Barry Fowler
23 March 1943
- LAC Colin Thomas Cooper
- LAC Denis Gerard DeGryse
- LAC Andrew Thomas Kidd
- P/O Andrew William Joseph Grellis
24 March 1943
- LAC Peter David Sim Moodie
29 March 1943
- Sgt Harvey Kenneth Dexter
27 April 1943
- LAC Leonard Edward Genower
- Sgt William Stevenson Stanbury
12 June 1943
- LAC Julius Sabik
26 June 1943
- LAC James Richard Wright
6 July 1943
- LAC John Russell Allen
11 September 1943
- F/O Kenneth Robert Taylor
19 October 1943
- P/O Donald Wilson Hanham
- LAC Sydney Gordon Taylor
3 November 1943
- LAC Dennis Elliot
3 December 1943
- P/O Johnnes Lambertus Sluyter
12 December 1943
- F/Sgt Bohuslav Prihoda
9 January 1944
- Sgt Thomas Dick
- Sgt Frederick George Mallin
17 January 1944
- Sgt Joseph Maurice Andre Adelin G. Lanis
2 March 1944
- LAC Robin Coates Miller
12 June 1944
- P/O Edward Lockhart Overton
- LAC Julius Van Rillaer
20 June 1944
- Cpl Alan Wooley
1 July 1944
- F/Sgt William Bruce MacKay
- Sgt Alexander Norman Bird
Aircraft List
For More information – External Links
- Wikipedia
- MilitaryBruce.com – Canadian Military History by Bruce Forsyth
- https://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/bcatp/bcatp-station-medicine-hat/
- Site Plan:
- Aerodrome Disposal File: