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Staff Sergeant Stanley Samuel Rothwell

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Service number: 10880
Age: 49
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Force: RCMP
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Birth: Arden, Manitoba
Enlistment: November 22, 1930
Death: August 6, 1958 Okanagan Falls, British Columbia
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S/Sgt. Rothwell was born in Arden, Manitoba. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force in WWII. S/Sgt. Rothwell had extensive experience as a bush pilot and had been flying RCMP aircraft for 12 years. He was the senior pilot of the RCMP Air Division. He died in an airplane accident while in the performance of duty along the East Shore of Skaha Lake, British Columbia. This accident was the RCMP’s first fatal crash since they began flying their own planes in 1937. There is a plaque in the RCMP chapel at Depot in memory of the members who perished in this accident. S/Sgt. Rothwell had a wife Helen, and a son.

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Page 97 of the RCMP Book of Remembrance.
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