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Caribous
" Motto? "
Squadron Code Letters "NA" (1938-42)
Squadron Score
29 / 7 / 35
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The caption for this photo says 24 October 1940. That is incorrect. Not only does the photo have "Sept 12/40" physically written on it (I've cropped it out), but Otto Peterson (2nd from the left) was not alive in October, having been KIA on 27 September.
Northolt, 12 September 1940
S/L McNab and some of his pilots during the Battle of Britain
from the left:
1) William Paterson "Bill" Sprenger (KIA 26 Nov. 1940)
2) Otto John "Pete" Peterson (KIA 27 September 1940)
3) W.R. Polloch (Sqn. Adjutant?)
4) Paul Brooke Pitcher (behind McNab)
5) Ernest Archibald "Ernie" McNab
6) Peter William "Pete" Lochnan (KiFA 21 May 1941)
7) Edwin Michael "Ed" Reyno
8) Eric Walter Beardmore
9) S.T. Blaiklock (Sqn. I/O, mostly hidden)
10) Robert W. "Bob" Norris |
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Prestwick, Scotland, 30 October 1940
| from the left: 1) Frank William Hillock (Toronto)
2) Ian Dennison Watson (Winnipeg)
3) Robert W. Norris (Saskatoon)
4) Norman Richard Johnstone (Winnipeg)
5) Joseph Armand Jacques Chevrier (St. Lambert, KiFA 6 July 1942)
6) John David Morrison (Regina, Winnipeg?)
7) Gordie McGregor (Montreal)
8) Arthur M. Yuile (Montreal)
9) Paul Pitcher (Montreal)
10) William Paterson Sprenger (Montreal, KIA 26 November 1940)
11) Dean Nesbitt (Montreal) |
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