7 OTU's Vickers Wellington HX448 aircraft, with an aircrew of six, took off from RAF Limvady for a navigational training flight [Wellington crews were being trained for Coastal Command operations; the training included the use of anti U-boat torpedos]. HX448 failed to return to base and it was later determined that the Wellington had crashed on Soar Island in the isolated St. Kilda archipelago in the North Atlantic, Taking the lives of the entire crew.
The airmen who perished in this accident were-
RCAF Flight Sergeant Harry Walter Hughes ADAMS,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Joseph Leon Triffle CHARTIER,
RCAF Flight Sergeant John Robert COFFEY,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Edsel Raymond HUTTON,
RCAF Flight Sergeant John Evered OATWAY and
RAFVR Sergeant Tom Speedy WHITE.
Military Service-
Service Number: R/106018
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Trade: Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Age: 22
Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 7 Operational Training Unit [OTU]; RAF Limvady, Derry, Northern Ireland
A farm hand by trade, residing in Ninette, Manitoba, Canada, he enlisted in the RCAF on 12 May 1941 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Son of Walter Hughes Adams and Ellen Edith Annie (née Wright) Adams of Ninette, Manitoba [father born in England; mother born in Ninette].
Flight Sergeant Harry Walter Hughes Adams is commemorated on Page 54 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
7 OTU's Vickers Wellington HX448 aircraft, with an aircrew of six, took off from RAF Limvady for a navigational training flight [Wellington crews were being trained for Coastal Command operations; the training included the use of anti U-boat torpedos]. HX448 failed to return to base and it was later determined that the Wellington had crashed on Soar Island in the isolated St. Kilda archipelago in the North Atlantic, Taking the lives of the entire crew.
The airmen who perished in this accident were-
RCAF Flight Sergeant Harry Walter Hughes ADAMS,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Joseph Leon Triffle CHARTIER,
RCAF Flight Sergeant John Robert COFFEY,
RCAF Flight Sergeant Edsel Raymond HUTTON,
RCAF Flight Sergeant John Evered OATWAY and
RAFVR Sergeant Tom Speedy WHITE.
Military Service-
Service Number: R/106018
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Trade: Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Age: 22
Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 7 Operational Training Unit [OTU]; RAF Limvady, Derry, Northern Ireland
A farm hand by trade, residing in Ninette, Manitoba, Canada, he enlisted in the RCAF on 12 May 1941 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Son of Walter Hughes Adams and Ellen Edith Annie (née Wright) Adams of Ninette, Manitoba [father born in England; mother born in Ninette].
Flight Sergeant Harry Walter Hughes Adams is commemorated on Page 54 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
He is also commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Inscription
1942
ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
FLIGHT SERGEANT
ADAMS H. W. H.
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