RCAF Station Carberry
Base / Station: Carberry
Province: Manitoba
Dates of Operation: 1940 – 1944
Location:
Units:
- No. 33 Service Flying Training School
- Primary Relief Landing Field (R1) Petrel
- Secondary Relief Landing Field (R2) Oberon
Structures:
Commanding Officers:
- Group Captain C.H. Brill
- as at June – Aug 1942
- Group Captain T.B. Bruce, M.C. –
- ? 1943 – ? Nov 43
- as at Mar and Apr 1943
- Group Captain J.S.T. Fall
- ? Nov 43 – ?
Unit Duties / Information:
December 26, 1940 No. 33 Service Flying Training School was opened to give pilots advanced flying training. This school, as with all others across Canada prefixed by a ‘3’, was an RAF school that had been sent over from Britain due to the danger involved in training there.
In the beginning, these RAF schools functioned separately from the BCATP but, in June 1942, modifications were made to the agreement and they incorporated into the BCATP system and, consequently, RCAF administration.

Image from the
RCAF Pilots Manual of Aerodromes and Seaplane Bases
c.1942
Aircraft Flown: Anson
Financial Impact:
Station Magazine/Newspaper: Gen!
Date / Reason for closure:
- November 17, 1944 No. 33 SFTS closed with the acceleration of the BCATP phase-out. In response to the changing tide of the war overseas and the forecasted end to it shortly, many air training centres were closed and the personnel discharged.
- Disbandment Order:
Site details:
Aerodrome:
Runways:
Railway Spur:
Current Status: abandoned airfield, all runways still exist but overgrown, one hangar still exists as part of MacCain indust. Plant
Married Quarters: None
Site Plan – 1944

Source – 1 Canadian Air Division, RCAF
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Site Plan – 1952

Source – 1 Canadian Air Division, RCAF
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Location – Google Map
Daily Diary – Transcription Links – No. 33 Service Flying Training School
Fatalities –
This list was compiled from the entries in the Daily diaries of No. 33 Service Flying Training School and the list of fatalities in Canada compiled by the Bomber Command Museum of Canada in Nanton, Alberta. The list likely does not include all fatalities of personnel who died while stationed at RCAF Station Carberry, and likely includes some errors.
4 April 1941 – Aircraft crash
- LAC David Millis Wesley – RAF(VR)
12 April 1941 – Aircraft crash
- LAC Lawrence Walter Hugh Lloyd – RAF(VR)
19 April 1941 – Aircraft crash
- LAC John Arthur Camp – RAF(VR)
- LAC Joseph Horace Giles – RAF(VR)
27 April 1941 – Aircraft crash
- LAC John George Permuth – RAF(VR)
29 June 1941 – Aircraft crash
- LAC Edward Charles Helmer – RCAF
- LAC Donald Hugh Ross – RCAF
20 July 1941 – Drowning
16 August 1941
19 August 1941
- LAC David Docherty – RAF
19 February 1942
- F/O Desmond Pelham Watson – RAF
- LAC Geoffrey Charles Wellings – RAF(VR)
1 March 1942
19 October 1942
- LAC Paul Ernest Sayer – RAF(VR)
- LAC Dennis Malcolm Watson – RAF(VR)
- LAC John Arthur Woods – RAF(VR)
25 August 1943
- Sgt Antony William Ingram – RAF
- LAC Frank Robert Shorney – RAF(VR)
3 December 1943 – Aircraft crash
- F/O John Francis Lee – RAF(VR)
- LAC Alastair Farquhar Blue – RAF(VR)
- LAC John Harold Bolsworth – RAF(VR)
- LAC Timothy Gurney Whiteland – RAF(VR)
17 February 1944
- LAC Robin Arthur Percivall Pott – RAF(VR)
20 May 1944
- LAC Alan Ernest King – RAF(VR)
29 May 1944
- LAC Godfrey Neil Weightman – RAF(VR)
16 August 1944
- LAC William Davis – RAF(VR)
13 September 1944
- LAC William Burt Naylor – RAF(VR)
Aircraft List –
For More information – External Links
- Wikipedia
- MilitaryBruce.com – Canadian Military History by Bruce Forsyth
- Manitoba Historical Society