RCAF Stationed at
Grostenquin, France

Base / Station: Grostenquin, France

Province: Overseas

Dates of Operation or Period of Information: 

• – 1964

Units:  

• 2 (Fighter) Wing, RCAF
• 421 Squadron
• 423 Squadron
• 430 Squadron

Commanding Officers: 

• Group Captain John Kennedy Francis MacDonald
  • October 1952 – November 1952
• Group Captain ME “Mike” Pollard
  • November 1952 – May 1953
• Group Captain William “Bill” Weiser
  • June 1953 – September 1955
• Group Captain William Francis Montgomery “Bill” Newson
  • October 1955 – July 1957
• Group Captain Arthur Brodie Searle
  • July 1957 – July 1961
• Group Captain Robert Ernest “Sam” MacBride
  • August 1961 – July 1963
• Group Captain Earl Robert Johnston
  • August 1963 – May 1964

* information sourced from C&E Museum Website

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Ephemera

24 June 1952

• Flying Officer W.A. Troke

9 June 1953

• Flying Officer Jean Guy Andre Cloutier

10 January 1954

• Flying Officer Kenneth Irwin Latta

12 May 1954

• Flying Officer G.D. MacDonald

6 June 1954

• Leading Aircraftman K.C. Haskill

11 August 1954

• Flying Officer George Lewis Beaulac

18 August 1954

• Flying Officer Francis George Robins

12 September 1954

• Flying Officer John Hans Peter Volfing

26 October 1954

• Flying Officer Roland Henry Curran

14 December 1954

• Flying Officer Pattee Vernon Robinson

3 March 1955

• Flying Officer John Louis Gordon Liggett

17 March 1955

• Flying Officer Raymond Allan Robertson

24 April 1955

• Leading Aircraftman Douglas William Thorne Keymer

21 July 1955

• Flying Officer Bruce George Donald
• Flying Officer Joseph Armand Emile Noel

26 October 1955

• Flying Officer R.G. Linklater

3 December 1955

• Flying Officer J.G.H. Campbell
• Flying Officer J.P. Hrenyk
• Corporal P.G. Knight
• Flying Officer Gerald Sinclair John Newman
• Corporal Robert Clarence Offerdahl
• Flying Officer Bruce E Patterson
• Flying Officer Peter Pigot

14 Mar 1957

• Flying Officer William Blythe Wilson

28 August 1957

• Flying Officer J.S. Myers

25 August 1958

• Flying Officer Garry Austin Cooling
• Flying Officer Bruce Kirkham
• Flying Officer George Ross Rayment
• 3 Civilians were also killed in this incident according to CASPIR. The aircraft crashed into the base hospital.

2 Dec 1958

• Flying Officer Micahel Harold Peter Fitt

21 December 1958

• Leading Aircraftman Clarence Reginald Burlock
• Leading Aircraftman Samuel Robert Grey
• Flight Lieutenant James Hutchins Haugh
• Flying Officer Herbert Leah
• Flying Officer Joseph Michael James Sullivan

15 Apr 1959

• Flying Officer David Herbert “Dave” Smith Sr.

26 Jun 1959

• Flying Officer Robert Gordon Starling

6 Oct 1961

• Flying Officer Robert Charles MacKay

30 December 1963

• Flight Lieutenant Verner Isadore Clouthier
• Sergeant Peter Antoon George Bach
• Flight Lieutenant John Kenneth Hamlen
• Flight Lieutenant Britton Lyall Johnston
• Flight Lieutenant Edward John Walshe
• Hazel Mary Bach
• Donald George Bach
• There may have been one additional person killed in this crash according to some information on CASPIR