Warrant Officer Shorten was one of five airmen killed in the crash of their Wellington (#BK158) aircraft when the aircraft suffered structural failure. It had taken off from RAF Ingham in Lincolnshire and crashed at Skellingthorpe, 2 miles from Lincoln.
The five casualties of this accident were:-
RAFVR Sergeant Archibald McKay CORMACK,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Terence Federick HOCKLEY,
RAF Sergeant Leslie JOICE,
RCAF Warrant Officer Class II Albert George SHORTEN and
Sergeant Leonard George VAUGHAN.
Military Service-
Service Number: R/102169
Age: 20
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 199 RAF Squadron ('Let Tyrants Tremble')
Son of Joseph William and Victoria Marie Clementine Shorten of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Warrant Officer Albert George Shorten is commemorated on Page 213 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
Saskatchewan's Shorten Lake was named in honour of Warrant Officer Albert George Shorten.
The five casualties of this accident were:-
RAFVR Sergeant Archibald McKay CORMACK,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Terence Federick HOCKLEY,
RAF Sergeant Leslie JOICE,
RCAF Warrant Officer Class II Albert George SHORTEN and
Sergeant Leonard George VAUGHAN.
Military Service-
Service Number: R/102169
Age: 20
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 199 RAF Squadron ('Let Tyrants Tremble')
Son of Joseph William and Victoria Marie Clementine Shorten of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Warrant Officer Albert George Shorten is commemorated on Page 213 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
Saskatchewan's Shorten Lake was named in honour of Warrant Officer Albert George Shorten.
Warrant Officer Shorten was one of five airmen killed in the crash of their Wellington (#BK158) aircraft when the aircraft suffered structural failure. It had taken off from RAF Ingham in Lincolnshire and crashed at Skellingthorpe, 2 miles from Lincoln.
The five casualties of this accident were:-
RAFVR Sergeant Archibald McKay CORMACK,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Terence Federick HOCKLEY,
RAF Sergeant Leslie JOICE,
RCAF Warrant Officer Class II Albert George SHORTEN and
Sergeant Leonard George VAUGHAN.
Military Service-
Service Number: R/102169
Age: 20
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 199 RAF Squadron ('Let Tyrants Tremble')
Son of Joseph William and Victoria Marie Clementine Shorten of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Warrant Officer Albert George Shorten is commemorated on Page 213 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
Saskatchewan's Shorten Lake was named in honour of Warrant Officer Albert George Shorten.
The five casualties of this accident were:-
RAFVR Sergeant Archibald McKay CORMACK,
RAFVR Flight Sergeant Terence Federick HOCKLEY,
RAF Sergeant Leslie JOICE,
RCAF Warrant Officer Class II Albert George SHORTEN and
Sergeant Leonard George VAUGHAN.
Military Service-
Service Number: R/102169
Age: 20
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 199 RAF Squadron ('Let Tyrants Tremble')
Son of Joseph William and Victoria Marie Clementine Shorten of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Warrant Officer Albert George Shorten is commemorated on Page 213 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
Saskatchewan's Shorten Lake was named in honour of Warrant Officer Albert George Shorten.
Inscription
Royal Canadian Air Force
WE LOVED YOU SO MUCH
DEAR SON.
BUT GOD LOVED YOU EVEN MORE.
Gravesite Details
LINCOLN (NEWPORT) CEMETERY
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