AVIATORS IN CANADA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14593, 1 May 1918, Page 8

AVIATORS IN CANADA

10,000 FLYERS IN CAMP THIS SUMMER.

TORONTO, March 15

By April over four thousand 1 members of the Canadian branch of the ..Royal Flying Corps will have Jeturne'tl from the caiup.iu Texas to.catnns m Ontario. Tl)is summer the aviator.S will run ;t close race with, the infantry m this mili l wry district m strength, ■'■ There will be about 10,000 flyers m camp here this 4|umnuv. I)i addition there will he about 700 members o.l" tlie Uniti'd States flying corps who will come to this district lor preliminary training purposes;. Tliere will be at least eighteen .v|ii:id rons m operation at the various camps. One' new camp will be added to the organisation, and this is at Boamsvillc. Ontario, which is to be purely a schoei for aerial gunnery and aerial fighting. , Tho officers to- command', the camps are ■-tentatively aj)pointed as follows:— Cam}) Borden, Lieut. -Colonel F. A. Wanklyn;. Armor Heights and Leaside, which ' are included, m North Toronto, Lieut. -Colonel G. Wclkley ; Descvonio, Major E. K. Kyle, and Beamsvillc, Major F. M. Balhixd- , : Both Colonel Wanklyn and Major Kyle are Canadian born. At least 77 per cent, of tho officers of the R.F.C. m Canada are Canadians.! -

Brigadier-General Hoare^is m command x»f the R.F.C. m Canada, and the Uuitecr States. His heudc(u*arters are m Toronto.