RCAF Station Kingston
General Information
Location/Base: Kingston
Province: Ontario
Years in Use:
Units:
- No 14 Service Flying Training School
- 15 Aug ’44- 7 Sept ’45
- Established via Formation order issued 19 May 1941
- School opened 3 July 1941
- Ordered to move to Kingston, Ontario by movement order dated 10 August 1944
- started move from Aylmer, Ontario, 15 August 1944 small det remained at Aylmer to complete training courses 106, 107 and 108
- Ordered disbanded 24 August 1945.
- School disbanded effective 7 September 1945
- Aircraft used:
- Anson,
- Harvard,
- Yale
- Walrus
- No 31 Service Flying Training School
- Royal Air Force School hosted in Canada
- Formerly known as No 7 Service Flying Training School, prior to move to Canada
- All RAF Schools formally became part of the BCATP in 1942
- Was primary Service Flying Training School for Royal Navy pilots.
- 7 Oct ’40-14 Aug ’44
- Aircraft used:
- Battle,
- Harvard
- 1 Aircraft Holding Unit- 7 Sept ’45-
- Primary Relief Landing Field – Gananoque
- Secondary Relief Landing Field – Sandhurst
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:
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
On Track – 1978
Location – Google Map
Station Magazine
“The Pioneer”
Daily Diary – Links – No. 31 Service Flying Training School
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, Manitoba has created a transcription of this Daily Diary.
Their web site is AirMuseum.ca
Daily Diary – Links – No. 14 Service Flying Training School
1944
School moved from Aylmer middle of August 1944, see Aylmer, Ontario for more ORB Listings.
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
For More information – External Links
- Wikipedia
- MilitaryBruce.com – Canadian Military History by Bruce Forsyth
- www.harvardsabove.ca
- Operational Record Book
Other Sources:
First-class resource, very useful when I was helping New Zealand family trace a relative’s flying career. Thank-you.
Thank you. I’m glad that it helped with your research.
Nathan