On 23 February 1941, PO Willard Eugene Madden was flying in a Harvard II A.J. 559, about four miles north-west of Collins Bay, near Odessa, Ontario with pupil pilot Walter Herbert Riddett from Wiltshire, England. At the same time, Lead Airman Claude Anthony Trebel, from Hampshire, England was also piloting a training aircraft, and the two planes collided in mid-air, killing all three airmen [D05215, D05220].
Willard Eugene Madden is buried in the Erskine Cemetery in Dunbarton Ontario. Walter Herbert Ridett and Claude Anthony Trebel are buried in Cataraqui Cemetery in Kingston, Ontario. All three are memorialized in the Book of Remembrance.
Find a Grave Links:
- Pilot Officer Willard Eugene Madden
- Leading Airman Claude Anthony Trebel
- Leading Airman Walter Herbert Ridett
Sources:
[D05215] Canada, "Canada World War II Service Files," Madden, Willard Eugene; digital images, ancestry.ca,ancestry.ca
[D05220] "Eight Airmen Are Killed In Ontario in Two Days,"Globe and Mail, 25 February 1942, p. 1, col. 2.
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