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No.431 (Iroquois) Squadron RCAF was formed at Burn in Yorkshire on the 11th Novemeber 1942, flying the Wellington X. Later they flew the Halifax V and the Lancaster X
The Squadron retruned to Canada on the 12th of June 1945
Airfields at which No. 431 Squadron were based:
- Burn. 11 Nov 42 to 15 July 1943
- Tholthorpe. 15 July 1943 to 10 Dec 1943
- Croft.10 Dec 1943 to 12 June 1945
My Uncle Robert J. Hooker flew with the 431 Squadron.
My uncle was the Wireless Operator with the R.W. Harrison crew. The crew were: F/O R.W.Harrison, Sgt F.Samson, F/O A.H.Phillips, F/O G.Dumville, WO1 R.Hooker, F/S J.M.Content, Sgt K.J.Taylor.
My uncle was awarded the George Medal for bravery for saving the lives of two of his crew members after their bomber crashd on takeoff from a base in England.
My uncle returned from the war in 1945 and farmed at Erinferry, Saskatchewan. He also operated the North Star Bulk Plant in the 1950's at a nearby town called Debden where I was raised. In 1959 my uncle moved to British Columbia where he took a job with the Canadian National Railway as a foreman on a Bridge and Building gang and retired with the CNR in 1973. He passed away in 1985 in Kamploops, B.C.
Ron LePage
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List of those who served with 431 Squadron during the Second World War.
- F/Lt B. Adilman RCAF Pilot
- P/O G. Baumann RCAF, Pilot
- P/O Hubert "Bertie" Bishop. mid upper gunner. . Read his Story
- F/O Blachford pilot. (d. 16/17 June 1944 ) Read his story
- F/O Roy E. Carter. RCAF. nav. (d. 9 July 1944) Read his story
- J. Collver
- F/S J.M.Content. Read his Story
- W/C J. Coverdale RAF
- Sgt G. Cuffe RCAF, Mid-upper gunner
- Wing Commander Ralph Davenport. pilot. Read his Story
- F/O G.Dumville. 431 Sqd. (d. 6 Jul 1944) Read his Story
- Sgt J. Evans RAF, Flight engineer
- Charles William Fraser. W/op Read his Story
- F/O W. Gillissie
- Sgt. Gould (d. 16/17 June 1944 ) Read his story
- F/O R.W. Harrison. pilot. Read his Story
- Sgt. Hattey Read his story
- Donal Kevin Joseph Hector. nav. Read his Story
- Angus Brown Heron.
- WO1 Robert J. Hooker. W/op. Read his Story
- F/Lt L. James RCAF, Flight engineer
- Sgt. Kennedy Read his story
- P/O Clarence Lecky. rear gunner. Read his Story
- Sgt. R. Leman
- F/O Lough (d. 16/17 June 1944 ) Read his story
- F/O T. McQuitty RCAF, Wireless Op
- S/L T. B. Marshall RAF
- Sgt. Tom Masdin Read his story
- F/O G. Miles
- S/Ldr W. E. Mulford RAF
- F/O F. Nickerson RCAF, Bomb aimer
- P/O Arthur Clifford Pettifor. flt eng. Read his Story
- F/O A.H.Phillips. Read his Story
- F/O G. Poole RCAF, Navigator
- Wendelin Rink. air bomber Read his Story
- Sgt F.Samson. Read his Story
- P/O G. Sidebottom RCAF, Navigator
- P/O J. Smith RCAF, Wireless Op
- Sgt G. Sorel
- F/O A. Staves RCAF, Mid-upper gunner.
- Sgt K.J.Taylor. Read his Story
- Sgt W. Teape
- P/O W. Windsor RCAF, Rear gunner
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