No 3 Service Flying Training School memorial
Municipality/Province: Cochrane, AB
Memorial number: 48025-040
Type: Cairn (stones)
Address: Highway 2A, needs research
Location: Roughly 13 kilometres west of Cochrane on the South side of Highway 1A at range road 53.
Submitted by: Terry MacDonald, Kyle Scott
This memorial is dedicated to the men from the United States who joined the British Commonwealth of Nations in their fight for democracy during the Second World War. This memorial is also dedicated to Sergeant Pilot Alfred Emile Regimbal of Lafleche, Saskatchewan and Leading Aircraftman Quentin Burl Chace from Kansas who died at this location during the Second World War.
On the night of February 17, 1941 No. 3 Service Flying Training School lost two of its pilots in the tragic crash of an Avro Anson aircraft into the Bow River. The aircraft was flying low when it hit a cable stung across the river. Both crew died in the crash.
Sgt Pilot Alfred Regimbal of Lefleche, Saskatchewan and LAC Student Pilot, Quentin Burl Chace of Wichita, Kansas, USA were both tragically killed. Both men’s bodies were retrieved and returned to their hometowns for burial with full military honours.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
THIS MEMORIAL
IS DEDICATED AS A PLEDGE
OF EVERLASTING FRIENDSHIP
TO THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AND TO THE GALLANT FIGHTERS
FROM HER EVERY STATE WHO
JOINED THE
BRITISH COMMONWEALTH
OF NATIONS IN
THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY
DURING
THE SECOND GREAT WAR
[side/côté]
IN THIS VALLEY
TWO MEMBERS OF THE
ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
SERGEANT PILOT
ALFRED REGINALD
LAFLECHE, SASKATCHEWAN
AND
HIS AMERICAN COMRADE
LEADING AIRCRAFTSMAN
QUENTIN BURL CHACE
WICHITA, KANSAS
WERE STAYED BY THE HAND
OF DEATH
FEBRUARY 17, 1941
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