The following biographical information was provided by Don McArthur:
Flying instructor W.O.1 W.J. Coward died from a compound skull fracture when his plane crashed in a field in Flos Township, Simcoe County, Ontario. He was posted at Camp Borden, near Barrie at the time. He left behind a wife, Helen Mae Barnes.
Another pilot, Kenneth Edward Thomson, age 20 of Dunblane, Scotland was also killed in the crash.
Also killed in the same crash was Flying Instructor Ralph Edmund Wood, age 20, of Picton, Ontario, who was born in Motherwell, Scotland.
Flying instructor W.O.1 W.J. Coward died from a compound skull fracture when his plane crashed in a field in Flos Township, Simcoe County, Ontario. He was posted at Camp Borden, near Barrie at the time. He left behind a wife, Helen Mae Barnes.
Another pilot, Kenneth Edward Thomson, age 20 of Dunblane, Scotland was also killed in the crash.
Also killed in the same crash was Flying Instructor Ralph Edmund Wood, age 20, of Picton, Ontario, who was born in Motherwell, Scotland.
The following biographical information was provided by Don McArthur:
Flying instructor W.O.1 W.J. Coward died from a compound skull fracture when his plane crashed in a field in Flos Township, Simcoe County, Ontario. He was posted at Camp Borden, near Barrie at the time. He left behind a wife, Helen Mae Barnes.
Another pilot, Kenneth Edward Thomson, age 20 of Dunblane, Scotland was also killed in the crash.
Also killed in the same crash was Flying Instructor Ralph Edmund Wood, age 20, of Picton, Ontario, who was born in Motherwell, Scotland.
Flying instructor W.O.1 W.J. Coward died from a compound skull fracture when his plane crashed in a field in Flos Township, Simcoe County, Ontario. He was posted at Camp Borden, near Barrie at the time. He left behind a wife, Helen Mae Barnes.
Another pilot, Kenneth Edward Thomson, age 20 of Dunblane, Scotland was also killed in the crash.
Also killed in the same crash was Flying Instructor Ralph Edmund Wood, age 20, of Picton, Ontario, who was born in Motherwell, Scotland.
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Records on Ancestry
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Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths Overseas, 1869-1950
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UK, Commonwealth War Graves, 1914-1921 and 1939-1947
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Canada, Newspapers.com™ Obituary Index, 1800s-current
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UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
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Saskatchewan, Canada, Residents Index (SRI), 1800-2012
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