BREADNER DIES IN U.S. HOSPITAL
OTTAWA— (CP) —Air chief Marshal
Lloyd Samuel Breadner, former chief-of-air-staff and commander of the R.C.A.F. overseas during the latter part of the Second World War, died last night in a Boston hospital.
The veteran airman, who achieved the highest rank ever awarded in the R.C.A.F., was in ill-health for some time. He was 58.
The air chief marshal took over as chief of the air staff in 1940. In 1943 he relinquished this title and went overseas as commander of the R.C.A.F. forces in Britain.
He was promoted air chief marshal shortly before his retirement in 1945.
DEATH ANNOUNCED
Air Force headquarters learned of his death this morning.
It was the second death of an R.C.A.F. senior verteran in three weeks. On Feb. 22, Air Marshal Harold (Gus) Edwards died in Arizona at the age of 59. He built up the R.C.A.F. overseas and Breadner took over in 1943.
Funeral arrangements have not been completed.
Like Air Marshal Edwards, the former R.C.A.F. boss started flying during the First World War and served with the Royal Naval Air Service—predecessor of the R.A.F.
He won the D.S.C. in operations against the Germans after receiving flying instructions from a German.
PAYS OWN WAY
It was in 1915 that Breadner took his own pocket money and went to Wright Flying School in Dayton, O.
He also paid his own way overseas to join the R.N.A.S. and by July, 1917, commanded a squadron. . .
The Lethbridge Herald (Lethbridge, Alberta) - Saturday, March 15, 1952
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