1943 March Quarter death registration-
Name: Aitken, Alexander C.
Age: 20
District: Pembroke
Volume & Page: 11a & 1251
Pilot Officer Aiken lost his life when his 'Spitfire' (#EP202) aircraft was in a mid-air collision, near Angle airfield, with another 'Spitfire'. The pilot in the other aircraft [Spitfire #EN777), Fl.Lt Phil Blades, survived the accident.
From the Canadian Virtual War Memorial--
Military Service:-
Rank: Pilot Officer
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: J/16586
Age: 20
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 421 RCAF Squadron-[MOTTO: 'Bellicum cecinere' - They have sounded the war trumpet]; 421 Squadron based at RAF Fairwood Common in Wales.
A mail order clerk at T.Eaton's Toronto store , he enlisted in the RCAF on 8 Jan 1941 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Commissioned to Pilot Officer, 1 January 1943; only weeks before his fatal accident at Angle airfield.
Son of Alexander Drummond Aitken and Margaret (née Craig) Aitken of Toronto. His father, Alexander Drummond Aitken, was born in Aberdeen, Scotland; his mother, Margaret Craig, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Pilot Officer Alexander Craig Aitken is commemorated on Page 130 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
Alec's headstone was corrected by the C.W.G.C. in April 2000; his old headstone had erroneously recorded his occupation as 'Navigator'.
Name: Aitken, Alexander C.
Age: 20
District: Pembroke
Volume & Page: 11a & 1251
Pilot Officer Aiken lost his life when his 'Spitfire' (#EP202) aircraft was in a mid-air collision, near Angle airfield, with another 'Spitfire'. The pilot in the other aircraft [Spitfire #EN777), Fl.Lt Phil Blades, survived the accident.
From the Canadian Virtual War Memorial--
Military Service:-
Rank: Pilot Officer
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: J/16586
Age: 20
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 421 RCAF Squadron-[MOTTO: 'Bellicum cecinere' - They have sounded the war trumpet]; 421 Squadron based at RAF Fairwood Common in Wales.
A mail order clerk at T.Eaton's Toronto store , he enlisted in the RCAF on 8 Jan 1941 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Commissioned to Pilot Officer, 1 January 1943; only weeks before his fatal accident at Angle airfield.
Son of Alexander Drummond Aitken and Margaret (née Craig) Aitken of Toronto. His father, Alexander Drummond Aitken, was born in Aberdeen, Scotland; his mother, Margaret Craig, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Pilot Officer Alexander Craig Aitken is commemorated on Page 130 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
Alec's headstone was corrected by the C.W.G.C. in April 2000; his old headstone had erroneously recorded his occupation as 'Navigator'.
1943 March Quarter death registration-
Name: Aitken, Alexander C.
Age: 20
District: Pembroke
Volume & Page: 11a & 1251
Pilot Officer Aiken lost his life when his 'Spitfire' (#EP202) aircraft was in a mid-air collision, near Angle airfield, with another 'Spitfire'. The pilot in the other aircraft [Spitfire #EN777), Fl.Lt Phil Blades, survived the accident.
From the Canadian Virtual War Memorial--
Military Service:-
Rank: Pilot Officer
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: J/16586
Age: 20
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 421 RCAF Squadron-[MOTTO: 'Bellicum cecinere' - They have sounded the war trumpet]; 421 Squadron based at RAF Fairwood Common in Wales.
A mail order clerk at T.Eaton's Toronto store , he enlisted in the RCAF on 8 Jan 1941 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Commissioned to Pilot Officer, 1 January 1943; only weeks before his fatal accident at Angle airfield.
Son of Alexander Drummond Aitken and Margaret (née Craig) Aitken of Toronto. His father, Alexander Drummond Aitken, was born in Aberdeen, Scotland; his mother, Margaret Craig, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Pilot Officer Alexander Craig Aitken is commemorated on Page 130 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
Alec's headstone was corrected by the C.W.G.C. in April 2000; his old headstone had erroneously recorded his occupation as 'Navigator'.
Name: Aitken, Alexander C.
Age: 20
District: Pembroke
Volume & Page: 11a & 1251
Pilot Officer Aiken lost his life when his 'Spitfire' (#EP202) aircraft was in a mid-air collision, near Angle airfield, with another 'Spitfire'. The pilot in the other aircraft [Spitfire #EN777), Fl.Lt Phil Blades, survived the accident.
From the Canadian Virtual War Memorial--
Military Service:-
Rank: Pilot Officer
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: J/16586
Age: 20
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 421 RCAF Squadron-[MOTTO: 'Bellicum cecinere' - They have sounded the war trumpet]; 421 Squadron based at RAF Fairwood Common in Wales.
A mail order clerk at T.Eaton's Toronto store , he enlisted in the RCAF on 8 Jan 1941 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Commissioned to Pilot Officer, 1 January 1943; only weeks before his fatal accident at Angle airfield.
Son of Alexander Drummond Aitken and Margaret (née Craig) Aitken of Toronto. His father, Alexander Drummond Aitken, was born in Aberdeen, Scotland; his mother, Margaret Craig, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Pilot Officer Alexander Craig Aitken is commemorated on Page 130 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
Alec's headstone was corrected by the C.W.G.C. in April 2000; his old headstone had erroneously recorded his occupation as 'Navigator'.
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