Arras Air Services Memorial - Canadian Airmen Database

[laughton]

Forgive me if this is a topic already on the GWF but my search did not reveal such a title, however it did uncover a number of other interesting topics.

Piece-by-piece we are constructing databases of the Canadian's that are on our major Great War Memorials (Vimy, Menin Gate, Halifax, Beaumont Hamel). Each memorial has a distinct purpose and as such we do not have individual memorials in the cemeteries. You will see many notices on the GRRF or COG-BR documents where they were initially listed and then marked "CANCELLED".

• Vimy Memorial (ground troops with no known grave in France)
• Arras Flying Services Memorial (or airmen have joined yours on that memorial)
• Menin Gate (ground troops with no know grave in Belgium - except Pte. Montanelli at Bois Grenier but CWGC won't modify)
• Beaumont Hamel (ground troops from Newfoundland that were not part of Canada in the war)
• Halifax Memorial (lost at sea or buried in Canada with no known grave)
• Book of Remembrance Ottawa (no idea where they are buried - we are working hard to reduce this list at present)

I have recently updated our Arras Flying Services Memorial database with the latest information from GWF member Trevor Henshaw. We have three (3) men whose burial locations we believe we have identified. As with the ground troops, these reports would go to the CWGC Agency in Ottawa for a storage.

There are links within the spreadsheet to their records (CVWM, CWGC, LAC, etc.). They are also linked to basic Wikipedia information on the British Squadron and the aircraft. The spreadsheet is updated at the above link each time a new set of data has been entered. At present all known names are entered and we are adding the main links.

Anyone is welcome to use this information in their private research. For those of you that are interested in the airmen that were lost, you can't go forward without Trevor's most fascinating book "The Sky Their Battlefield II".

We would be pleased to receive any information, comments or corrections for this work.

Richard

[nigelcave]

Very interesting.

You might be interested in the Newfoundlander (a lieutenant) who has the distinction of being commemorated both on the Tyne Cot memorial (even more extraordinarily, on an addenda panel) and at Beaumont Hamel.