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The Waugh Family The Waugh Family during World War II
Jock Waugh applied to enlist in the RCAF aircrew in Oct, 1941, but was found "not qualified medically" due to a hernia. On June 6, 1943, he re-applied and was recommended for Non-Pilot Navigation Instructor or Education Officer. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force on November 29, 1943, as an Officer Cadet with rank of Sergeant and was immediately transferred to Lachine, Quebec, and then on to Dunnville, Ontario for training. His father (John "the Joker" Waugh) died on December 3, 1943. RCAF Station Lachine was a Royal Canadian Air Force station located near Lachine and Dorval, Quebec, Canada, to the west of Montreal. The location of the station was Dorval Airport, which became the Montreal-Dorval International Airport (now Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport). RCAF Station Lachine began operation in 1941 as a transit point for the ferrying of aircraft and the transportation of supplies to Europe during the Second World War. Until 1943, Lachine was the location of one of five British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) manning depots, No. 5 Manning Depot. - from Wikipedia
Jock Waugh was also stationed at Dunnville, Ontario, as an educational officer. Dunnville Airport opened on November 25, 1940 as one of twenty-eight Service Flying Training Schools (SFTS) constructed under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. The Dunnville Airport, then designated as Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) No. 6 SFTS, Dunnville, was a single-engine school for advanced flying training for allied fighter pilots during World War II. Flying training at the school was divided between two squadrons, each squadron comprised of four ‘flights’. Each ‘flight’ employed 10 instructors each of whom were each responsible for four to five students at any given time. The school graduated a class each month, taking in a fresh course every 28 days. The curriculum seemed like a lot for a 19 year old to absorb in just 16 weeks, the length of conversion time to Harvards in 1943. It included taxiing, straight and level flight, climbing, gliding, stalling, spinning, medium turns, steep turns, climbing turns, precautionary landings, formation flying, navigation, circuits, cross country, map reading, instrument flying, dive bombing, aerobatics, forced landings and night flying. Bombing practice was done over the school’s target in the Grand, five miles northwest of the main aerodrome. Night flying and practice take-off and landings were carried out at relief fields in Kohler and Welland. At its peak in 1943, personnel on the station totaled nearly 1500 including 150 members of the RCAF Women’s Division and almost as many civilians. Aircraft on strength during the same period included 64 Harvard II’s, 36 Harvard IIB’s and 8 Mk II Ansons, with 6 Harvards in storage. The school’s large quantity of NA 64 Yales by this time had been relegated to the role of wireless trainers, painted yellow and flown off the base to RCAF wireless schools throughout Canada. - from RCAF Dunnville No. 6 SFTS by Rob Schweyer Ron Russell was stationed at Camp Borden with the Canadian Army Tank Corp. Camp Borden was the most important training facility for the Canadian military during World War II. See The Russell Family during World War II.
In May, 1944, Jock Waugh was promoted to the rank of Flying Officer. On January 4, 1945, he was transferred to Moncton, New Brunswick for a further transfer overseas where he was stationed in Bournemouth and Odiham, England and Brussells, Belgium. His military records indicate that he embarked for the UK from Halifax, Nova Scotia on Jan 30 and disembarked in Greenock, UK on Feb 8, 1945.
Bournemouth Airport began as RAF Hurn on 1 August 1941, during World War II. It was used for paratroop training and as a glider base before the North African Landings in 1943. Prior to D-Day, it was the base of 570 Squadron, who landed agents and dropped supplies to the French Resistance. The hardened runways of the airfield saw extensive use by United States Army Air Forces in the preparations for D-Day and the subsequent Battle of Normandy. It was also the home base of 84 Group, RAF Second Tactical Air Force, comprising nine squadrons of Typhoons, who flew daily to France supporting ground forces. - Wikipedia Odiham: When World War II commenced, the resident Army Co-operation Wing (No 614 Squadron) moved to France, and No 225 Squadron, flying Lysanders, took possession of the Station. They were followed by Free French, Belgian and Canadian training units. In June 1943, Fighter Command took control of Odiham, flying Mustangs and later, Typhoons. On 'D' Day, the unit assumed a transit role for 'follow-up' elements, and later became a Prisoner of War (PoW) Reception Centre. During the summer of 1945, a Canadian Transport Wing was formed in the United Kingdom, and for just over a year RAF Odiham became part of the Royal Canadian Air Force. - from Royal Air Force
England, United Kingdom
The bomber offensive mounted by the Royal Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force, and the air forces of other Commonwealth countries during the Second World War has been described as the most continuous and gruelling operation of war ever carried out. It lasted for some 2000 days - and for four long years, while the world waited for the tide slowly to turn, Bomber Command offered the only weapon capable of waging war against Hitler's European fortress: "Strike Hard - Strike Sure". Brussels, Belgium
Jock Waugh was awarded the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp. The Canadian Volunteer Service Medal is granted to persons of any rank in the Naval, Military or Air Forces of Canada who voluntarily served on Active Service and had honourably completed eighteen months ( 540 days) total voluntary service between September 3, 1939 to March 1, 1947. Jock served from November 29, 1943 until he was honourably discharged on May 8, 1946.
See the names on Dedication Service, Brooks High c 1946
The Waugh Family after World War II
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