Researching RFC pilots from Malvern Collegiate

dfuller52 · 4 October 2009, 07:58 PM

Hello All,

I have just recently discovered that the RCAF history at my son's high school, where I have been researching their honour roll 1939-1945, goes back to the first war and a handful of men who were with the RFC/RAF and the Naval Arm.

I have joined the forum to find out more about these men and extend the story back to these earlier days.

Malvern Collegiate Institute is in Toronto's Beach neighbourhood and the school has a proud history of students who served in both wars. In due course, I will pose some questions about the boys from Malvern.

I am also a frequent contributor to RAF Commands forum and I look forward to "meeting" you all in this new community.

In my day job, I am a writer at York University in Toronto and I am a former newspaper editor with plans to write a book on the boys of Malvern.

tcrean7828 · 4 October 2009, 08:08 PM

Mate,
Welcome to the flagship of the Aerodrome - where the greatest minds on the planet get together and talk about their favorite subject - WW1.

ttfn

tcrean7828

tom

P.S. Werner Voss fan here.

dfuller52 · 4 October 2009, 08:13 PM

Thanks Tom.

I should have mentioned that I grew up with Billy Bishop as a particular hero and I have copies of his book and his son's biography of him. I used to build models of all the classic WW1 aircraft and have read a fair bit of the history of those times - but it was all a while ago. My research in the past couple of years has mostly been WW2. My father was also RCAF, 1943-1945, in Bomber Command.