Sergeant (Pilot) BONE, ALAN CAMERON Service Number R/85712 Died 12/12/1941 Aged 23 Royal Canadian Air Force Son of James Harvey Bone and Nadine Middlebro' Bone, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Casualty Buried at HAWARDEN (ST. DEINIOL) CHURCHYARD Location: Flintshire, United Kingdom Number of casualties: 57 Cemetery/memorial reference: North part.
Spitfire pilots and aircraft database - Sgt A C BONE RCAF THE AIRFIELDS a) RAF Hawarden (PRN 85240) History 6.1 RAF Hawarden had its origins as a Relief Landing Ground for nearby RAF Sealand, but the commencement of work on a Vickers shadow factory for the production of Wellington bombers at the site in 1937 meant that adjoining land was requisitioned for an associated flying field. As well as the testing of Wellingtons produced in the factory, the airfield that resulted was, from March 1940, home to a Maintenance Unit and from June of that year was used intensively by several Operational Training Units (OTUs) for fighter and reconnaissance pilots, including future ace Johnnie Johnson. A notable development that took place in one of the huts on the OTU was the creation of an early form of flight simulator, the Hawarden Trainer, which was soon adopted for all Spitfire and Hurricane OTUs (Smith 1980). The Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) also had a presence at the base, providing civilian pilots for the ferrying of aircraft wherever they were needed. Amy Johnson the famous aviator, and her ex-husband Jim Mollison both served in the ATA and are known to have been frequent visitors to Hawarden. Extracted from http://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/airfield/CPAT 1128.pdf Tim
England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 Name: Alan C Bone Death Age: 23 Birth Date: abt 1918 Registration Date: Dec 1941 Registration district: Holywell Inferred County: Flintshire Volume: 11b Page: 510 TD
As an aside, the Broughton aircraft manufacturing factory at Hawarden held an assembly record in 1943 for the production of a Wellington in less then 24 hours from initial assembly to having the aircraft ready for an air test. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11107561.....the documentary of the event is screened on TV from time to time. Now the factory is the source of the production of aircraft wings for Airbus Industries.
Ahhhhh - see someone has worldwide membership of Ancestry (or the like) - I could access the attestion but not the death cert - but then I'm a cheapskate TD
No contest! There is a price to pay though - I have to put up with the 'street people' who come in - mainly for warmth, of course - drugged up to the eyeballs and stinking like a wart-hog's bum-hole.
Hmmmm - its been a while since I last smelt a wart hogs bum hole - could you remind me what I am perhaps missing. I'm off to sit on a comfy seat by the wood burner with a lovely cup of tea and a mince pie TD
