Operation: Training

Date: 26th August 1944 (Saturday)

Unit: No. 6 Service Flying Training School. 1 Training Command

Type: Harvard IIB

Serial: FE582

Code: -

Base: RCAF Dunneville, Ontario

Location: East of Uxbridge

Pilot: LAC. Noel Herbert Wood NZ/437361 RNZAF Age 19. Killed

REASON FOR LOSS:

During a five hour navigational training exercise peeled off and dived over a farm 2 miles east of Uxbridge.

Began a low-level roll but failed to recover and flew into the ground at 13:45 hrs killing the young New Zealand pilot.

Burial details:

LAC. Noel Herbert Wood. Dunnville Cemetery (Riverside). Lot 845. Grave 6. Born on the 30th October 1924 in Auckland. Educated at Takapuna Grammar School. A clerk for A.J Entrican, Sims Company. Enlisted at Omaka as aircraft hand on the 14th May 1943. Re-mustered as a pilot under train on the 09th December 1943. With No. 3 Elementary Flying Training School on the 11th December 1943. Embarked for Canada on the 11th February 1944. With No. 6 Service Flying Training School on the 19th March 1944.

Son of Edmund Harry Wood (died 1982, age 91) and of Jeanette Edith Wood (née Coe - died 1975, age 87), of Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand. Epitaph: 'Thy Way O God Not Mine Sleep On Beloved Till We Meet Again'.

Researched and dedicated to the relatives of this pilot with thanks to the extensive research by Errol Martyn and his publications: “For Your Tomorrow Vols. 1-3”, New Zealand Cenotaph, Weekly News of New Zealand, Air Museum of New Zealand, Museum of Transport and Technology, Auckland, other sources as quoted below:

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