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RCAF Station Kingston



Location/Base: Kingston

Province: Ontario

Years in Use:

Units:          

Commanding Officers:

  • Group Captain Alexander Shekleton, CBE, DSO
    • Commanded No 7 Service Flying Training School, in England from April 1935 until it moved to Canada.
    • Commanded No 31 Service Flying Training School 7 October 1940 – Until his death 1 March 1941.
  • Wing Commander Ingram
    • 15 Aug ’44-
  • Group Captain W.R. Pollock
    • 17 Aug ’44-

Financial Impact:

Date/Reason for Closure:

RCAF Aerodrome Kingston, Ontario.
Image from the
RCAF Pilots Manual of Aerodromes and Seaplane Bases
circa 1942.
Image courtesy of Matt Heintz.

Site Evolution:

  • The Publication On Track…the Pilot’s Air Travel Guide (First Annual Edition – 1978) lists the Aerodrome as “Kingston” – See photos on this page.

Current Status: Is now the Kingston/Norman Rogers Airport


Training Area Map – No 14 Service Flying Training School

Training Area Map for No 14 Service Flying Training School, Kingston, Ontario. (Map courtesy of LAC Joseph M. Scherrer RCAF)

On Track – 1978

On Track…the Pilot’s Air Travel Guide (First Annual Edition – 1978) Kingston Aerodrome (Part 1)
On Track…the Pilot’s Air Travel Guide (First Annual Edition – 1978) Kingston Aerodrome (Part 2)

Location – Google Map


Station Magazine
“The Pioneer”


The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, Manitoba has created a transcription of this Daily Diary.
Their web site is AirMuseum.ca



1944

School moved from Aylmer middle of August 1944, see Aylmer, Ontario for more ORB Listings.

August

September

October

November

December


Fatalities

This list was compiled from the entries in the Daily diaries of No. 31 and 14 Service Flying Training Schools and other sources. The list may not include all fatalities of personnel who died while stationed at RCAF Station Kangston. With input from various sources, so far there were 51 deaths of service personnel that were stationed at Kingston.

30 December 1940

  • LAC Henry (Harold) Levy
  • LAC George Douglas Lowe

1 March 1941

  • G/C Alexander Shekleton, CBE, DSO

13 April 1941

  • LAC John Murray Reardon

9 June 1941

  • A/LA William McCulloch
  • Civ James Edward Free
  • Civ Samuel Harold Battams

17 June 1941

  • LAC Benjamin Elwell

15 July 1941

  • LAC Robert Edward Fellows

21 September 1941

  • LAC Roy Peter Marshall

28 October 1941

  • LAC Ernest Raymond Reynolds

20 November 1941

  • LAC John Oldfield

23 February 1942

  • P/O Willard Eugene Madden
  • A/L/A Claude Anthony Treble
  • A/L/A Walter Herbert Riddett

13 April 1942

  • A/L/A George Hector Cowan Deans

20 April 1942

  • A/L/A Peter Robinson

17 May 1942

  • WO1 Dennis Carrington Hide

11 June 1942

  • A/L/A Eric William Gibson
  • A/L/A Henry Scott Paterson

15 June 1942

  • A/L/A John Campbell Moore

16 June 1942

  • A/L/A Geoffrey Dixon Askew
  • A/L/A Richard Jepson Rowley
  • Mr Lawrence McGeein

19 June 1942

  • Sgt William Vernon Bodington

6 July 1942

  • LAC Sidney Dick Thurston

28 July 1942

  • A/L/A Ronald Frederick Bush

11 October 1942

  • A/L/A Robert Ian Breingan

20 November 1942

  • A/L/A Harry Emanuel Holman

28 November 1942

  • Lt Robert Cecil Edwards

27 December 1942

  • AC2 Kenneth George Moorhouse

4 January 1943

  • F/L Alan Blyth

2 February 1943

  • A/L/A Michael Melvill Beachcroft
  • P/O Arthur David Walford

8 February 1943

  • A/L/A Hugh McNeice

1 April 1943

  • A/L/A Hugh Victor Laing

9 July 1943

  • A/L/A Geoffrey Francis Hicks
  • P/O Frank Alexander Piercy

16 September 1943

  • AC1 John Tulloch Middlemiss

20 September 1943

  • A/L/A Duncan Bryce Murphy

28 September 1943

  • A/L/A Geoffrey Fitton

30 November 1943

  • P/O Nicholas Frederic Charles Winby
  • A/L/A Ivor William Wilkin

19 December 1943

  • W/O William Michael Florance Moffat
  • A/L/A Gordon Clifford Hicks

15 March 1944

  • A/L/A Roy Richard Tolson

3 April 1944

  • A/L/A Herbert William Graham-Brown

3 May 1944

  • AC2 Frederick Lewis Cochshott
  • F/Sgt Richard Gordon Elliot

5 July 1944

  • A/L/A Eric Skorrow

16 August 1944

17 September 1944

17 November 1944

20 June 1945

10 July 1945


Aircraft List

Harvard

AJ542

AJ549

AJ643

AJ645

AJ693

AJ698

2553

Battle

R3969

R7461

R7474


Courts Martial

The following personnel were recommended for courts martial and a file was created on the Charged Offence, not all Offences were tried. This list is not complete but I will be working my way through the reels in the upcoming months.

  • Sergeant John Fenwick (RAF-246332)
    • Was charged with Absent Without Leave for the period of 1 August – 4 October 1941
    • Trial Date – 27 October 1941
    • This file is 132 pages but covers multiple courts martials.
    • Member plead guilty and was sentenced to loss of seniority, and a severe reprimand.
    • The file also contains a courts martial that occurred for Absent Without Leave and Conduct to the Prejustice of Good Order and Air Force Discipline that occurred in Pennfield Ridge, New Brunswick the following year.
  • Flight Sergeant Frank Robinson (RAF-47878)
    • Charged with fraud related offences.
    • The charges were not prosecuted
    • The file is 26 pages.

Course List
No 31 Service Flying Training School

Course List
No 14 Service Flying Training School


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This Post Has 2 Comments

  1. Paul Allonby, RAeS

    First-class resource, very useful when I was helping New Zealand family trace a relative’s flying career. Thank-you.

    1. Nathan Kachur

      Thank you. I’m glad that it helped with your research.
      Nathan

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