Rank: Group Captain
Service No: C/299
Date of Death: 20/02/1945
Age: 33
Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Air Force, #7 Operational Training Unit (OTU) [Debert, Nova Scotia]
Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross
Son of William Frederick and Sada B. Corbett of Presqu'ile Point, Ontario. Husband of Mary Catherine (Sloan) Corbett, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A. One son. His widow married Raymond Finley Courtney. She died in 1981.
Died in a flying accident at Quebec while stationed at Debert, N.S.
Date of Birth: 24 Mar 1911
World War II
The Montreal Gazette - Jan 5, 1942
AIR WAR VETERANS BACK FROM BRITAIN
(extract)
News of the appointment of Vaughan B. Corbett to head a squadron was made public here in June of last year. The young lawyer, a graduate of McGill University, had joined the R.C.A.F. before the war and was one of the first to go into the Battle of Britain.
He had attended Upper Canada College and had then gone to the Royal Military College at Kingston. After graduation he entered the R.C.A.F. here. The day war was declared he was called for active service and took his training at St. Hubert. He went overseas in June, 1940, as a member of the now-famous No. 1 Fighter Squadron under Sqdr.-Ldr. E. McNab. On Aug 31 of that year he was shot down, his plane in flames.
Before he could bail out, he was badly burned and spent three months in hospital. A short time after his convalescense he was promoted from flight-lieutenant to squadron leader, and was given command of the No. 402 squadron.
Group Captain Corbett was one of four airmen killed in the crash of their Bolingbroke (#9179) aircraft, 2 miles west of the Bagotville base.
The four Canadian airmen who perished in this aircraft accident were:-
Leading Aircraftman William Reid CLARK,
Group Captain Vaughan Bowerman CORBETT,
Sergeant John Allan FISHER and
Leading Aircraftman William Cochrane WARRELL.
Service No: C/299
Date of Death: 20/02/1945
Age: 33
Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Air Force, #7 Operational Training Unit (OTU) [Debert, Nova Scotia]
Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross
Son of William Frederick and Sada B. Corbett of Presqu'ile Point, Ontario. Husband of Mary Catherine (Sloan) Corbett, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A. One son. His widow married Raymond Finley Courtney. She died in 1981.
Died in a flying accident at Quebec while stationed at Debert, N.S.
Date of Birth: 24 Mar 1911
World War II
The Montreal Gazette - Jan 5, 1942
AIR WAR VETERANS BACK FROM BRITAIN
(extract)
News of the appointment of Vaughan B. Corbett to head a squadron was made public here in June of last year. The young lawyer, a graduate of McGill University, had joined the R.C.A.F. before the war and was one of the first to go into the Battle of Britain.
He had attended Upper Canada College and had then gone to the Royal Military College at Kingston. After graduation he entered the R.C.A.F. here. The day war was declared he was called for active service and took his training at St. Hubert. He went overseas in June, 1940, as a member of the now-famous No. 1 Fighter Squadron under Sqdr.-Ldr. E. McNab. On Aug 31 of that year he was shot down, his plane in flames.
Before he could bail out, he was badly burned and spent three months in hospital. A short time after his convalescense he was promoted from flight-lieutenant to squadron leader, and was given command of the No. 402 squadron.
Group Captain Corbett was one of four airmen killed in the crash of their Bolingbroke (#9179) aircraft, 2 miles west of the Bagotville base.
The four Canadian airmen who perished in this aircraft accident were:-
Leading Aircraftman William Reid CLARK,
Group Captain Vaughan Bowerman CORBETT,
Sergeant John Allan FISHER and
Leading Aircraftman William Cochrane WARRELL.
Rank: Group Captain
Service No: C/299
Date of Death: 20/02/1945
Age: 33
Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Air Force, #7 Operational Training Unit (OTU) [Debert, Nova Scotia]
Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross
Son of William Frederick and Sada B. Corbett of Presqu'ile Point, Ontario. Husband of Mary Catherine (Sloan) Corbett, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A. One son. His widow married Raymond Finley Courtney. She died in 1981.
Died in a flying accident at Quebec while stationed at Debert, N.S.
Date of Birth: 24 Mar 1911
World War II
The Montreal Gazette - Jan 5, 1942
AIR WAR VETERANS BACK FROM BRITAIN
(extract)
News of the appointment of Vaughan B. Corbett to head a squadron was made public here in June of last year. The young lawyer, a graduate of McGill University, had joined the R.C.A.F. before the war and was one of the first to go into the Battle of Britain.
He had attended Upper Canada College and had then gone to the Royal Military College at Kingston. After graduation he entered the R.C.A.F. here. The day war was declared he was called for active service and took his training at St. Hubert. He went overseas in June, 1940, as a member of the now-famous No. 1 Fighter Squadron under Sqdr.-Ldr. E. McNab. On Aug 31 of that year he was shot down, his plane in flames.
Before he could bail out, he was badly burned and spent three months in hospital. A short time after his convalescense he was promoted from flight-lieutenant to squadron leader, and was given command of the No. 402 squadron.
Group Captain Corbett was one of four airmen killed in the crash of their Bolingbroke (#9179) aircraft, 2 miles west of the Bagotville base.
The four Canadian airmen who perished in this aircraft accident were:-
Leading Aircraftman William Reid CLARK,
Group Captain Vaughan Bowerman CORBETT,
Sergeant John Allan FISHER and
Leading Aircraftman William Cochrane WARRELL.
Service No: C/299
Date of Death: 20/02/1945
Age: 33
Regiment/Service: Royal Canadian Air Force, #7 Operational Training Unit (OTU) [Debert, Nova Scotia]
Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross
Son of William Frederick and Sada B. Corbett of Presqu'ile Point, Ontario. Husband of Mary Catherine (Sloan) Corbett, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A. One son. His widow married Raymond Finley Courtney. She died in 1981.
Died in a flying accident at Quebec while stationed at Debert, N.S.
Date of Birth: 24 Mar 1911
World War II
The Montreal Gazette - Jan 5, 1942
AIR WAR VETERANS BACK FROM BRITAIN
(extract)
News of the appointment of Vaughan B. Corbett to head a squadron was made public here in June of last year. The young lawyer, a graduate of McGill University, had joined the R.C.A.F. before the war and was one of the first to go into the Battle of Britain.
He had attended Upper Canada College and had then gone to the Royal Military College at Kingston. After graduation he entered the R.C.A.F. here. The day war was declared he was called for active service and took his training at St. Hubert. He went overseas in June, 1940, as a member of the now-famous No. 1 Fighter Squadron under Sqdr.-Ldr. E. McNab. On Aug 31 of that year he was shot down, his plane in flames.
Before he could bail out, he was badly burned and spent three months in hospital. A short time after his convalescense he was promoted from flight-lieutenant to squadron leader, and was given command of the No. 402 squadron.
Group Captain Corbett was one of four airmen killed in the crash of their Bolingbroke (#9179) aircraft, 2 miles west of the Bagotville base.
The four Canadian airmen who perished in this aircraft accident were:-
Leading Aircraftman William Reid CLARK,
Group Captain Vaughan Bowerman CORBETT,
Sergeant John Allan FISHER and
Leading Aircraftman William Cochrane WARRELL.
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