RCAF Station Port Albert
General Information
Location/Base: Port Albert
Province: Ontario
Years in Use: –
Units:
- No 31 Air Navigation School
- Formed – 18 November 1940
- Disbanded – 17 February 1945
- Aircraft
- Avro Anson
Commanding Officers:
Financial Impact:
Date/Reason for Closure:
Current Status:
Location – Google Map
YouTube Videos
Photo Gallery
Station Magazine
“A.D.”
Station Magazine
“Recte Volare”
Daily Diary – Links – No. 31 Air Navigation School
The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, Manitoba has created a transcription of this Daily Diary.
Their web site is AirMuseum.ca
This Transcription appears to only be a partial version of the completed document.
Fatalities
This list was compiled from the entries in the Daily diaries of No. 31 Air Navigation School and other sources. The list likely does not include all fatalities of personnel who died while stationed at RCAF Station Port Albert, and likely includes some errors. Currently this list contains 32 personnel.
7 December 1940
12 March 1941
- Sergeant John Clydesdale Bell
- Flight Sergeant Henry Dodsworth
- Leading Aircraftman Maurice Godfrey Folkard
- Leading Aircraftman Ivor Wilfred Jackson
- Leading Aircraftman Stanley Porter
- Leading Aircraftman Eric Alfred Rundell
- Aircraftman 1st Class Colin Trevor Douglas
24 April 1941
21 May 1941
20 June 1941
- Corporal Clifford Douglas Bradbury
- Leading Aircraftman Joseph Walter Clarkson
- Leading Aircraftman Douglas Charles Frank Evans
- Sergeant Joseph George Jones
10 July 1942
28 November 1942
- Aircraftman 1st Class William Henry Addis
- Flight Sergeant R. Brown
- Leading Aircraftman Cecil Penrose James
- Sergeant Joseph Leslie Shaw
1 February 1943
25 March 1943
19 June 1943
22 October 1944
6 December 1944
Aircraft List
Courts Marshal
The following personnel were recommended for courts marshal 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.
- Squadron Leader Lawrence Leigh Hunt (RAF-37287)
- Was charged with conduct to the prejudice of good order and air force discipline.
- Trial Date – 26 November 1941
- This file is 86 pages
- Was sentenced to a severe reprimand
- Squadron Leader Leslie Stephen Potter (RAF-19199)
- Charged with drunkenness
- Trial Date – 22-Oct-43
- This file is 99 pages.
- Was found not guilty.
Course List
No 31 Air Navigation School
For More information – External Links
- Wikipedia
- MilitaryBruce.com – Canadian Military History by Bruce Forsyth
Good work.Would be interested in seeing more.Spent time at Hamilton airport last year-great museum.I live in Ireland.
I do some online work for the Canadian Warplane Heritage museum but have not as of yet had an opportunity to visit. Continue check out the site, there are very few days that something is not updated. Thanks for visiting.