AIR TRAINEES
MEN FROM CANADA
FIRST CONTINGENT ARRIVES IN ENGLAND
ALL OBSERVERS
(British Official Wireless.) (Received November 26, 11.10 a.m.)
RUGBY, November 25
The first contingent of airmen trained in Canada under the Empire air training scheme arrived at a port in the north-west of England during the weekend. The entire contingent, comprising pilot officers and sergeants, are air observers, and they will' shortly be posted for active service with the Royal Air Force. All those who arrived are Canadians, but under the scheme a larger number of Australians and New Zealanders, as well as men from the United Kingdom, are undergoing advanced training in Canada as pilots, wireless operators, and air gunners, as well as air observers. Other pilots and air crews are being wholly trained in Australia and New Zealand. Some of these have already arrived in this country, and others will go direct to Air Force bases overseas.
From now onwards pilots, observers, and air gunners trained in the different parts of the British Commonwealth overseas will be arriving in this country at frequent intervals and in ever-increasing numbers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 128, 26 November 1940, Page 7
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