Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 191 Gambia YORKE, Basil Ralph. Warrant Officer II Yorke, RCAF, was the son of Harry Burton and Gertrude Meria Yorke, of Wharton/Fox River and the husband of Martha Sophia Yorke of Toronto. He served as a wireless operator/air gunner with 200 Squadron RAF conducting convoy protection duties in the South Atlantic off the coast of Gambia. He was accidentally killed on 3 November 1942 when he walked into the propeller of a Wellington aircraft that was running up prior to take-off at Jeswang, Gambia. Warrant Officer Class II Wireless Operator Air Gunner Yorke is buried in the War Cemetery at Fajara, Gambia. Nigeria SWEENY, Byron Leslie. Warrant Officer II, served in the RCAF as a wireless operator/air gunner, and was the son of Lloyd Douglas and J. Beatrice Sweeney, of Brenton, Yarmouth Co. Her served in the RAF West Africa Command with an aircraft delivery unit. On 14 February a Blenheim bomber had an engine fail, went into a spin and then crashed and burned at lbadan. WO II Sweeny was one of the three airmen killed in that accident. He is buried the Military Cemetery, lbadan. Sudan BENT, Elroy Fenwick. Pilot Officer Bent served as a pilot in the RCAF and was the son of Ernest Elroy and Lorna Henrietta Bent of McNab’s Island, and the husband of Frances Evelyn Bent, of Upper Granville, Annapolis Co. He was at No2 (Middle East) Pilots and Aircrew Pool awaiting a posting at the time of his death. Nineteen-year-old PO Bent was killed on 19 August 1942, when the USAAC Lockheed Hudson bomber that he was travelling in, crashed at Wadi Sedina. Pilot Officer Pilot Bent is buried in the Khartoum War Cemetery Tunisia GLENWRIGHT, George Edward. Flying Officer Glenwright, an RCAF pilot, was the son of George Edward and Edna Wood Glenwright and the husband of Isabelle Gordon Glenwright, of Joggins, Cumberland Co. He served with 152 Squadron RAF. George was killed on 28 December 1942 when his Spitfire aircraft was shot down eightyfive miles south-west of Tunis, at Souk El Arba. Flying Officer Pilot Glenwright was buried at Souk El Arba, exhumed, and reinterred in the Medez-El-Bab War Cemetery, Tunisia. LETCHER, William Granville. Sergeant Letcher was a regular force soldier, serving in Halifax with the Royal Canadian Regiment, when WW II broke out. He was the on of Charles Burrows and Mary Triffenia Letcher, of Springhill, and the husband of Doris Muriel Letcher, of Springhill. In September 1941 he was transferred to the 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards and arrived in Tunisia in March 1943 where he was attached to the 46th Recce Regiment of the British Army. He was killed in action on 2 April 1943 and is buried in the Tabarka Ras Rajel War Cemetery. THAYER, Robert Francis. Flight Sergeant Thayer was an American who served as a navigator in the RCAF. He was living in Cape Breton when he enlisted and was the nephew of Katherine Gillis, of Gillisville. The 21-year-old airman was part of the crew of Wellington bomber HE 962 of 424 Squadron. During a bombing mission the starboard engine of HE 962 overheated and caught fire. Robert was killed on 17 July 1943 when the pilot made a forced landing forty-five miles north-west of Kairouan. Flight Sergeant Thayer is buried in the American Military Cemetery, Kairouan. THOMPSON, Donald Gordon. Warrant Officer II of the RCAF was the son of Samuel and Grace Brown Thompson, of Florence. WO II Thompson was killed on 17 January 1943, two miles north-east of Souk El Khemis, when he made a wheels-down landing on soft ground and his Hurricane aircraft HL 968 turned over. Warrant Officer Class II Thompson is buried in the Djebel Hallouf Military Cemetery. continued ... continued ...
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