Flying Officer Birnie Allan Dawson

Birnie Allan Dawson was born at Huntingdon, Quebec, on 4 April 1915. A Huntingdon Academy graduate and chauffeur, he enlisted in the RCAF at Montreal on 3 June 1937. He served as an aero-engine mechanic and instructor before earning his pilot's wings and commission in August 1943. He taught navigation, test-flew aircraft at repair depots, flew ambulance work and later helped develop RCAF helicopter maintenance and search-and-rescue operations. Returning to airman status in 1946, he advanced through Flight Sergeant and Warrant Officer before receiving a permanent technical commission in 1955. His final duties were at Canadair with No. 1102 Technical Services Detachment. He retired as Flying Officer on 21 October 1960 after 23 years of service. He married Joan Caroline Reid in 1942; they had three children. Dawson died at Pointe-Claire on 3 October 1993 and was buried at Montreal Memorial Park Cemetery.

1915-04-04 — Born — Huntingdon, Quebec
1922 to 1934 — Attended Huntingdon Academy; Junior Matriculation — Huntingdon, Quebec
1929 to 1934 — School cadet training — Huntingdon, Quebec
1935-11-04 — Applied for RCAF motor-mechanic enlistment; chauffeur and mechanical experience — Huntingdon, Quebec
1937 — Treated for multiple carbuncles of the neck — RCAF Station Hospital, Camp Borden, Ontario
1937-06-03 — Enlisted Permanent RCAF, no. 2232; posted as AC2 aero-engine apprentice to Camp Borden — Montreal, Quebec; Camp Borden, Ontario
1937-07-17 to 1937-07-23 — Station hospital admission; condition not securely established in ledger — Camp Borden, Ontario
1937-07-28 — Forfeited one day’s pay for absence without leave; precise absence interval unclear — Camp Borden, Ontario
1938-01-04 to 1938-01-07 — Hospitalized with gastritis, improved and returned to duty — Station Hospital, Camp Borden, Ontario
1938-01-13 to 1938-01-31 — Slipped on working parade, left-knee sprain; hospitalized; injury found in performance of duty without blame — Station Hospital, Camp Borden, Ontario
1938-04-25 — Trade test ACH(AE), score 84%; register dates and Group C result readings vary — Camp Borden, Ontario
1938-04-28 — Passed ACH Fitter, Group C trade examination, 84% — Camp Borden, Ontario
1938-06-03 — Reclassified Aircraftman First Class — Camp Borden, Ontario
1938-06-18 to 1938-06-19 — Travelled Camp Borden to Ottawa before formal transfer effective 20 June/report 21 June — Camp Borden / Ottawa, Ontario
1938-06-20 — Transferred to No. 1 Aircraft Depot; reported 21 June — Ottawa, Ontario
1939-02-06 — Passed Motor Mechanic (AE), Group B trade examination, 81% — No. 1 Aircraft Depot, Ottawa, Ontario
1939-03-06 to 1939-03-11 — Hospital treatment for conjunctivitis; discharged improved to duty — RCAF Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario
1939-04-15 — Transferred from No. 1 Aircraft Depot to No. 110 Detachment; reported 17 April — Weston / Toronto, Ontario
1939-06-17 to 1939-06-30 — Attached for annual summer training camp — RCAF Station Trenton, Ontario
1939-06-20 to 1939-06-21 — Transported radio equipment between Trenton and Weston for No. 110 Squadron — Trenton / Weston, Ontario
1939-07-01 — Reclassified LAC and Motor Mechanic AE Group B — No. 110 Detachment, Weston, Ontario
1939-07-10 to 1939-08-07 — Twenty-eight days leave, ledger interval somewhat faint — Weston, Ontario
1939-09-01 — Appointed provisional paid Corporal — No. 110 Detachment, Weston, Ontario
1939-09-21 — Consented to extension of Permanent Active service while required — Weston, Ontario
1939-11-01 — Aero Engine Mechanic Group A qualification recorded — Weston, Ontario
1939-11-28 — Undertook active service in Canada and overseas for war and demobilization — Weston, Ontario
1940-01-24 — Posted from No. 110 Detachment to Technical Training School; travelled 25 January by private car — St. Thomas, Ontario
1940-02-23 to 1940-02-28 — Hospital influenza treatment; discharged to light duty — Station Hospital, St. Thomas, Ontario
1940-02-29 to 1940-03-04 — Four days sick leave entered in ledger — St. Thomas, Ontario
1940-03-29 — Directed to settle or arrange repayment of custom-clothing debt; later produced remittance evidence — Technical Training School, St. Thomas, Ontario
1940-07-30 — Requested pilot-course interview; earlier 1939 recommendation had not led to training — Technical Training School, St. Thomas, Ontario
1940-09-01 — Confirmed Corporal — Technical Training School, St. Thomas, Ontario
1940-09-02 to 1940-09-09 — Seven days annual leave — St. Thomas, Ontario
1940-09-14 — Renewed pilot-training application; tradesman remustering restrictions explained — Technical Training School, St. Thomas, Ontario
1940-10-01 — Promoted Temporary paid Sergeant — Technical Training School, St. Thomas, Ontario
1940-10-05 — Fell down steps, sprained right ankle; X-rays negative for fracture — St. Thomas, Ontario
1940-10-07 to 1940-10-10 — Hospitalized for right-ankle sprain, satisfactory recovery — Station Hospital, St. Thomas, Ontario
1941-01-05 to 1941-01-13 — Eight days leave entered in ledger — St. Thomas, Ontario
1941-02-05 — Correct birth certificate inspected and record amended to 4 April 1915 — Technical Training School, St. Thomas, Ontario
1941-03-07 to 1941-03-14 — Influenza admission; four days sick leave to 19 March — Station Hospital, St. Thomas, Ontario
1941-03-19 to 1941-03-22 — Readmitted with influenza; facial neuralgia related to upper tooth; discharged good — Station Hospital, St. Thomas, Ontario
1941-05-01 — Promoted Temporary paid Flight Sergeant — Technical Training School, St. Thomas, Ontario
1941-07-21 to 1941-07-28 — Seven days annual leave — St. Thomas, Ontario
1941-08-27 — Struck off Technical Training School for No. 3 Training Command; TOS Montreal 28 August — Montreal, Quebec
1941-08-28 — Began resident liaison/instruction duties at War Emergency Training Programme school — Cartierville, Quebec
1941-09-26 — Requested subsistence increase because Cartierville accommodation shortage required residence at Notre-Dame-de-Grâce — Montreal, Quebec
1941-12-10 — Nasal condition caused aircrew unfitness after November examination; later surgery allowed reassessment — Montreal, Quebec
1942-01-30 to 1942-01-31 — Temporary duty from No. 3 Training Command to St. Johns — Saint-Jean, Quebec
1942-04-02 — TOS Air Force Headquarters Special Duties List, remaining on Cartierville duties and No. 3 TC disciplinary attachment — Ottawa, Ontario; Cartierville, Quebec
1942-04-09 to 1942-04-18 — Hospitalized with acute right otitis media; improved to unit — Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec
1942-04-19 to 1942-04-25 — Six days sick leave after hospital treatment — Montreal, Quebec
1942-05-25 to 1942-05-30 — Hospitalized for deviated septum; repeat submucous resection 27 May, good result — Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec
1942-05-30 — Discharged after nasal surgery; one week sick leave recommended — Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec
1942-06-06 — Requested remustering from AEM to pilot — Cartierville, Quebec
1942-06-29 to 1942-06-30 — Aircrew medical/interview assessment acceptable; good mathematics, CT64, recommended pilot/commission — No. 13 Recruiting Centre, Montreal, Quebec
1942-07-27 to 1942-08-03 — Seven days annual leave — Cartierville, Quebec
1942-09-08 — Permission to marry Joan Caroline Reid granted — Cartierville, Quebec
1942-09-19 — Married Joan Caroline Reid at St. Mark’s Anglican Church — St. Laurent, Quebec
1942-09-22 to 1942-09-28 — Seven days annual leave — Cartierville, Quebec
1942-11-07 — Aircrew remustering approved; liaison duties could be released without immediate replacement — Cartierville, Quebec
1942-12-05 — Reverted to Temporary paid Sergeant for aircrew training — Cartierville / Victoriaville, Quebec
1942-12-06 — TOS No. 3 ITS, Course 68 — Victoriaville, Quebec
1942-12-13 to 1942-12-29 — Christmas leave, entered as fifteen days — Victoriaville, Quebec
1943-02-20 — Partial lower denture delivered — Victoriaville, Quebec
1943-02-21 — TOS No. 11 EFTS; Fleet flying training with skis — Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec
1943-04-01 — Reappointed Temporary Flight Sergeant — Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec
1943-04-18 — TOS No. 13 SFTS; Harvard training; another ledger reads 28 April — St. Hubert, Quebec
1943-08-06 — Graduated pilot, received wings and Pilot Officer commission; officer number J29112 — No. 13 SFTS, St. Hubert, Quebec
1943-08-07 to 1943-08-20 — Fourteen days special leave — St. Hubert, Quebec
1943-08-21 — TOS No. 1 CNS for Short Navigation Instructor/Pilot Course 25 and astro training — Rivers, Manitoba
1943-08-23 to 1943-10-15 — Short Navigation Instructor (Pilot) Course 25; passed 60.75%, 21st of 21 — No. 1 Central Navigation School, Rivers, Manitoba
1943-09-20 to 1943-09-23 — Hospitalized acute nasopharyngitis; recovered — Station Hospital, No. 1 CNS, Rivers, Manitoba
1943-10-10 to 1943-10-12 — Officer oath and commission undertaking signed — Rivers, Manitoba
1943-10-16 to 1943-10-29 — Fourteen days annual leave following navigation course — Rivers, Manitoba
1943-11-02 — Returned to No. 13 SFTS navigation instruction on Harvards — St. Hubert, Quebec
1943-12-24 to 1943-12-28 — Five days Christmas leave — St. Hubert, Quebec
1944-01-26 — Replacement partial lower denture delivered — No. 13 SFTS, St. Hubert, Quebec
1944-02-06 — Promoted Temporary Flying Officer — No. 13 SFTS, St. Hubert, Quebec
1944-02-26 to 1944-03-10 — Fourteen days special leave; another entry extends to 12 March — St. Hubert, Quebec
1944-03 — Moved with No. 13 SFTS and Navigation Flight Course 101 — North Battleford, Saskatchewan
1944-03-13 — Temporary-duty attachment to No. 2 SFTS — Uplands, Ottawa, Ontario
1944-06 — Ceased navigation instruction and began maintenance test flying — No. 13 SFTS, North Battleford, Saskatchewan
1944-06-12 to 1944-06-25 — Fourteen days annual leave — North Battleford, Saskatchewan
1944-07-06 to 1944-07-17 — Applied for repair-depot/test-development posting; no vacancy available at that time — North Battleford, Saskatchewan
1944-07-17 to 1944-07-20 — Temporary duty from No. 13 SFTS and return — Vulcan, Alberta
1944-08-11 — CFS visiting flight assessed capable pilot and above-average navigation instructor — North Battleford, Saskatchewan
1944-09-22 — Temporary duty from No. 13 SFTS and return same day — Winnipeg, Manitoba
1944-10-09 to 1944-10-29 — Annual leave; duration variants in ledger — North Battleford, Saskatchewan
1944-12-09 to 1944-12-21 — Christmas leave and travelling time entered in ledger — North Battleford, Saskatchewan
1944-12-27 — Temporary duty and return same day — Calgary, Alberta
1944-12-30 to 1945-01-03 — Five days New Year leave — North Battleford, Saskatchewan
1945 — Aircraft undercarriage failed to lower; slid in, nobody injured; no exact date supplied — Winnipeg, Manitoba
1945-01-30 to 1945-02-03 — Temporary duty from No. 13 SFTS and return — Calgary, Alberta
1945-02-06 — Temporary duty and return same day — Dafoe, Saskatchewan
1945-02-10 to 1945-02-12 — Temporary duty to No. 11 Repair Depot and return — From North Battleford, Saskatchewan
1945-02-15 — Temporary duty and return same day — Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
1945-02-19 to 1945-02-20 — Temporary duty and return — Regina, Saskatchewan
1945-02-21 to 1945-02-23 — Temporary duty and return — Calgary, Alberta
1945-02-26 to 1945-03-02 — Certified qualified for commercial aviation under Public Transport Pilot requirements; certificates carry both dates — No. 13 SFTS, North Battleford, Saskatchewan
1945-03-03 — Temporary duty and return same day — Lethbridge, Alberta
1945-03-08 — TOS No. 8 Repair Depot, OC Test Flight and resident Anson V test pilot for MacDonald Brothers — Winnipeg, Manitoba
1945-03-10 — Public Transport Pilot test certificates forwarded to Civil Aviation — North Battleford, Saskatchewan
1945-04-02 to 1945-04-15 — Fourteen days annual leave; travelling time 16–20 April — Winnipeg, Manitoba
1945-05-08 — Temporary duty from No. 8 Repair Depot — Regina, Saskatchewan; Lethbridge and Calgary, Alberta
1945-05-28 — Temporary duty from No. 8 Repair Depot — Edmonton, Alberta
1945-07-19 — Applied for Regular General List commission, preferred test flying; no operational flying hours — No. 8 Repair Depot, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1945-08-01 — Recommended for Acting paid Flight Lieutenant; recommendation alone does not establish appointment — No. 8 Repair Depot, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1945-09-26 — Liberator 11101 co-pilot training for Project 0015 recorded — No. 8 Repair Depot, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1945-10-10 — Liberator Project 0015 check-out judged unnecessary because completion imminent — No. 8 Repair Depot, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1945-10-17 to 1945-10-19 — Temporary-duty itinerary via Lethbridge to Edmonton — Lethbridge and Edmonton, Alberta
1945-10-22 — Authorized $500 Ninth Victory Loan bonds from gratuity; authorization subsequently cancelled — Winnipeg, Manitoba
1945-12-23 to 1945-12-27 — Five days Christmas leave — Winnipeg, Manitoba
1946-01 — Pension-deduction undercharge of $10.33 recovered from pay — No. 8 Repair Depot, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1946-01-18 to 1946-01-29 — Temporary-duty itinerary through Swift Current/North Battleford, Brandon and Regina; returned Winnipeg — Saskatchewan and Manitoba
1946-02-16 — Transferred to No. 10 RD/Base Unit on reorganization/temporary-duty posting — Calgary, Alberta
1946-03-04 to 1946-03-17 — Fourteen days annual leave — Calgary, Alberta
1946-03-21 — TOS No. 6 Repair Depot, test pilot and weekly Dakota satellite flights — Trenton, Ontario
1946-03-31 — Active-service period closed for gratuity; continued RCAF career, not final retirement — Trenton, Ontario
1946-04-08 to 1946-04-09 — Temporary duty from No. 6 Repair Depot — Brantford and Picton, Ontario
1946-04-17 — Accepted Interim Air Force retention to September 1947, subject to Regular terms — Trenton, Ontario
1946-05-08 — Temporary duty from No. 6 Repair Depot — Mount Pleasant, Prince Edward Island; Mont-Joli, Quebec
1946-05-21 — War-service gratuity $592.50 authorized, 79 qualifying periods, two $296.25 instalments — 84 Boulevard O’Brien, St. Laurent, Quebec
1946-06-06 to 1946-07-04 — Temporary-duty flying included Winnipeg and additional destinations not securely read; returned 4 July — From Trenton, Ontario; Winnipeg, Manitoba
1946-06-30 — Son John Allan born — St. Mary’s Hospital, Montreal, Quebec
1946-07-06 — Accepted reversion to Sergeant from 1 October 1946 — No. 6 RD, Trenton, Ontario
1946-07-08 — Acknowledged General Service War Service Badge No. 1451971 and certificate — Trenton, Ontario
1946-07-23 to 1946-07-24 — Temporary duty from No. 6 Repair Depot and return — Mont-Joli, Quebec
1946-07-31 to 1946-08-02 — Temporary-duty flying from No. 6 Repair Depot and return — Moncton, New Brunswick; Mont-Joli, Quebec
1946-08-04 to 1946-08-05 — Temporary duty and return — Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
1946-08-07 to 1946-08-09 — Temporary-duty flying and return — Moncton, New Brunswick; Mont-Joli, Quebec
1946-08-17 to 1946-08-30 — Fourteen days annual leave — Trenton, Ontario
1946-09-09 to 1946-09-11 — Temporary duty and return — Mont-Joli, Quebec
1946-09-12 to 1946-09-17 — Hospitalized right-axillary furuncle, improved — RCAF Hospital, Trenton, Ontario
1946-09-18 to 1946-09-19 — Temporary duty and return — Mont-Joli, Quebec
1946-09-23 to 1946-10-22 — Thirty days special leave, replacing the originally ordered 31 August–29 September period — Trenton, Ontario; Calgary, Alberta (unit transfer during leave)
1946-09-30 — Resigned Special Reserve commission to re-engage as Regular airman — Trenton, Ontario
1946-10-01 — Regular airman re-engagement as Sergeant, AEM Group III, five-year term — Trenton, Ontario; Calgary, Alberta
1946-10-02 — TOS No. 10 Repair Depot; supervised inhibiting programme — Calgary, Alberta
1946-10-24 — Signed Regular engagement and oath — Calgary, Alberta
1946-11-05 — Qualified Dakota crewman — Calgary, Alberta
1946-11-05 to 1946-11-26 — Twenty-two days annual leave — Calgary, Alberta
1947-02-26 — Sikorsky certified normal S-51 servicing/maintenance qualification after 120-hour course — Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
1947-03-31 to 1947-04-24 — Annual leave and travelling time; another copy ends 21 April — Calgary, Alberta; Trenton, Ontario
1947-04-06 — TOS RCAF Station Trenton, Helicopter Flight; trained mechanics and assisted pilot instruction — Trenton, Ontario
1947-05-13 — Flying-time statement records approximately 1,326h25 total, 111h20 instrument; component readings vary — Trenton, Ontario
1947-06-02 to 1947-06-08 — Seven days annual leave — Trenton, Ontario
1947-08-13 — Special six-month helicopter crewman authority granted; qualified examiner unavailable — Trenton, Ontario
1947-09 — Initially declined transfer to Part V pension scheme; elected participation the following month — Helicopter Flight, Trenton, Ontario
1947-10-07 — TOS No. 103 Search and Rescue from Trenton; reporting documented 27 October via Dartmouth helicopter delivery — Greenwood / Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
1947-10-22 — Elected pension Part V contribution, effective that day; deductions from November — Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
1947-11-10 to 1947-11-11 — Wife and son travelled Montreal to Kingston, Nova Scotia, for Middleton home — Middleton / Kingston, Nova Scotia
1947-11-10 to 1947-11-26 — Seventeen days annual leave — Greenwood, Nova Scotia
1948-03 to 1948-04 — First major RCAF 240-hour helicopter inspection at Canadian Pratt and Whitney — Longueuil, Quebec
1948-05-03 — In charge No. 6 Hangar; helicopter crew and Dakota/Norseman/Ventura servicing — Greenwood, Nova Scotia
1948-05-25 — Medical board recommended suitable RCAF-pattern shoes or orthopaedic footwear for high arches — Greenwood, Nova Scotia
1948-06-01 to 1948-09-03 — Requested restoration of Flight Sergeant rank; headquarters reviewed and declined retrospective revision under policy — Greenwood / Trenton, Nova Scotia / Ontario
1948-07-07 — Applied to Benevolent Fund for $450 furniture loan, proposed $20 monthly repayment — Greenwood, Nova Scotia
1948-07-26 — Applied for Special Reserve Non-Flying commission; medical examination fit full aircrew — Greenwood, Nova Scotia
1948-08-17 — Benevolent Fund approved $100 furniture loan, repayable $10 monthly — Greenwood, Nova Scotia; Ottawa, Ontario
1948-09-03 — Station Fund acknowledged receipt of $100 Benevolent Fund loan — Greenwood, Nova Scotia
1948-09-07 to 1948-09-22 — 14 annual + 2 travelling leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Greenwood, Nova Scotia
1948-10-01 — Promoted Flight Sergeant; Group 4 Master Aircraft Mechanic/Technician examinations — Greenwood, Nova Scotia
1948-11-12 to 1948-11-27 — 16 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Greenwood, Nova Scotia
1949-01-03 to 1949-01-09 — 7 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Greenwood, Nova Scotia
1949-02-10 to 1949-02-16 — 7 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Greenwood, Nova Scotia
1949-03-03 — TOS No. 2 TTS for Technical Instructor Course 6 — Camp Borden, Ontario
1949-03-07 to 1949-09-02 — Technical Instructor Course 6; first of 22, mark 87.1%, began Engine Section instruction — Camp Borden, Ontario
1949-05-28 — Completed technical-refresher phase, 83.7% — No. 2 TTS, Camp Borden, Ontario
1949-07-18 to 1949-07-29 — 12 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Camp Borden, Ontario
1949-09-27 — Qualified to operate Bell & Howell projection equipment — Camp Borden, Ontario
1949-11-29 to 1949-12-04 — annual, entered as 7 days leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Camp Borden, Ontario
1950-02-03 — Sunnybrook Chest Clinic investigated bronchial asthma and animal/grain allergies; avoidance recommended — Toronto, Ontario
1950-03-07 to 1950-03-17 — 11 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Camp Borden, Ontario
1950-07-25 — Daughter Carolyn Margaret born — Barrie, Ontario
1950-07-26 to 1950-08-08 — 14 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Camp Borden, Ontario
1950-10-18 — Applied for Canadian Forces Decoration; later recommended December and approved 5 January 1951 — No. 2 TTS, Camp Borden, Ontario
1951-01-31 to 1951-02-15 — 16 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Camp Borden, Ontario
1951-04-12 to 1951-04-19 — Flying Control commission interview very suitable; headquarters declined as over-age — Camp Borden, Ontario
1951-04-14 — Signed re-engagement for 1 October 1951 to 30 September 1956 — Camp Borden, Ontario
1951-04-30 to 1951-05-06 — 7 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Camp Borden, Ontario
1951-05-21 — Made will appointing Sterling Trusts Corporation executor/trustee and revoking earlier wills — Camp Borden, Ontario
1951-07 — Technical commissioning assessment: CO did not consider him ready, despite favourable section reports — No. 2 TTS, Camp Borden, Ontario
1951-08-01 — Promoted Warrant Officer Class II — Camp Borden, Ontario
1951-08-07 to 1951-08-09 — Compassionate transfer recommended/authorized because father and father-in-law seriously ill — Camp Borden / Montreal, Ontario / Quebec
1951-09-08 to 1951-09-14 — 7 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Camp Borden, Ontario
1951-09-17 — Reported to No. 11 TSU; transfer effective 16 September; technical representative at Bristol Engines, No. 1106 TSD — St. Laurent / Montreal, Quebec
1951-11-20 — Receipt of Canadian Forces Decoration insignia stamped — No. 11 TSU, St. Laurent, Quebec
1951-11-27 to 1951-11-29 — Bilateral arm paraesthesia investigated; chest assessment and normal ECG — Lachine and Montreal, Quebec
1951-12-03 to 1951-12-14 — Aircraft Inspection refresher/supervisor course: Credit, 72.0%, fifth of 16 — Victoria Island, Ottawa, Ontario
1952-03-05 to 1952-03-20 — 16 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Montreal, Quebec
1952-03-10 — Category A Top Secret security clearance, need-to-know basis — No. 11 TSU, Montreal, Quebec
1952-03-24 — Applied for Technical List Aeronautical Engineering commission — No. 11 TSU, Montreal, Quebec
1952-07-21 to 1952-08-03 — 14 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Montreal, Quebec
1953-03-16 to 1953-03-31 — 16 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Montreal, Quebec
1953-05-02 — Passed Ground Defence Basic and continuation active-defence weapons training — No. 11 TSU, Montreal, Quebec
1953-07-06 to 1953-07-19 — 14 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Montreal, Quebec
1953-08-17 to 1953-08-23 — 7 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Montreal, Quebec
1953-12-14 — Passed special-weapons/nuclear-defence basic course; title partly uncertain — No. 11 TSU, Montreal, Quebec
1954-03-22 to 1954-03-30 — 9 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Montreal, Quebec
1954-04-01 — Promoted Warrant Officer Class I — No. 11 TSU, Montreal, Quebec
1954-07-19 to 1954-08-01 — 14 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Montreal, Quebec
1955-01-29 — Son Peter Birnie born — Montreal, Quebec
1955-02-07 to 1955-02-15 — 9 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Montreal, Quebec
1955-03-21 to 1955-03-27 — 7 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Montreal, Quebec
1955-05-02 — TOS Air Materiel Command Headquarters; family remained at St. Laurent pending accommodation — Rockcliffe / Ottawa, Ontario
1955-07-04 to 1955-07-17 — 14 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Ottawa, Ontario
1955-07-22 — Family moved from St. Laurent to Ottawa; occupied 14 McLeod Crescent — Ottawa, Ontario
1955-10-10 — Permanent commission from ranks, Pilot Officer/Flying Officer, Technical Aeronautical Engineering branch — Air Materiel Command Headquarters, Ottawa, Ontario
1955-10-22 to 1955-10-25 — Fell while installing storm windows; hospital treatment for left-forearm lacerations; right-wrist pisiform fracture confirmed later — Rockcliffe Station Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario
1955-10-26 to 1955-10-31 — Six days sick leave after hospital discharge — Ottawa, Ontario
1955-11-04 — Right-pisiform fracture confirmed by X-ray; shoulders showed no fracture — Rockcliffe, Ottawa, Ontario
1955-11-14 to 1955-12-23 — Commissioning from the Ranks Course 5515: Credit, 82.1%, 14th of 27; returned AMCHQ — No. 1 RCAF Officers’ School, London, Ontario
1956-02-06 — Family household moved to 39 Mynarski Crescent — Ottawa, Ontario
1956-02-06 to 1956-02-21 — 16 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Ottawa, Ontario
1956-03-13 — Persistent left-arm symptoms assessed as causalgia/scar sensitivity — Ottawa, Ontario
1956-04-19 to 1956-05-30 — Requested compassionate transfer to Montreal for care of seriously ill parents-in-law; supplied detailed supporting family history — Ottawa, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec
1956-06-13 to 1956-07-06 — Family in interim lodgings at Ottawa hotel and Huntingdon tourist home while arranging new residence — Ottawa, Ontario; Huntingdon, Quebec
1956-06-14 to 1956-06-29 — 16 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Ottawa, Ontario
1956-07-03 — TOS No. 11 TSU after compassionate transfer from AMCHQ, effective 2 July; production duties at No. 1102 TSD Canadair — Montreal / St. Laurent, Quebec
1956-07-06 — Furniture delivered to 171 Roseval Street after accommodation/mortgage arrangements — Ste. Rose, Quebec
1956-09-17 to 1956-09-23 — 7 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Montreal, Quebec
1956-11-23 — Passed basic atomic, biological and chemical warfare training — No. 11 TSU, Montreal, Quebec
1957-01-14 to 1957-01-20 — 7 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Montreal, Quebec
1957-03-12 — Outpatient entry recorded post-influenzal depression — Montreal, Quebec
1957-04-24 to 1957-04-30 — 7 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Montreal, Quebec
1957-05-14 — Ophthalmic review: simple hyperopia/incipient accommodation weakness, initially no glasses — Montreal, Quebec
1957-07-15 to 1957-07-28 — 14 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Montreal, Quebec
1957-09-09 to 1957-09-27 — Senior Quality Control Course: Distinguished Pass, 91.7%, third place — RCAF Quality Control Laboratory, Victoria Island, Ottawa, Ontario
1957-10-17 to 1957-10-29 — Requested and received an approximate pension calculation for retirement planning — No. 11 TSU, Montreal, Quebec; Ottawa, Ontario
1957-10-24 — Will location recorded as Guaranty Trust Company, Toronto — Toronto, Ontario
1957-11-05 — Passed continuation atomic, biological and chemical training and gas chamber test — No. 11 TSU, Montreal, Quebec
1958 — Fell in Canadair detachment parking lot, injuring right elbow; continuing pain reported at release — No. 1102 TSD, St. Laurent, Quebec
1958-01-08 — Secret security clearance superseded earlier authorizations — No. 11 TSU, Montreal, Quebec
1958-07-21 to 1958-08-03 — 14 annual leave; location is serving unit, destination not recorded — Montreal, Quebec
1958-11-27 — Passed continuation atomic, biological and chemical training and gas chamber test — No. 11 TSU, Montreal, Quebec
1959-06-03 — Applied for first clasp to Canadian Forces Decoration; 22 years’ service, ten additional qualifying years — No. 11 TSU, Montreal, Quebec
1959-07-15 to 1959-07-30 — Declined likely service extension without additional income; unit strongly recommended retention — No. 1102 TSD, Canadair, Montreal, Quebec
1959-08-24 — Surgery-clinic review of left anterior chest-wall cyst; shoulder/elbow complaints also noted — Montreal, Quebec
1959-09-01 to 1959-11-17 — Orthopaedic review and physiotherapy for elbow/shoulder pain; bursitis, X-rays without significant abnormality, no disability at final review — Montreal Military Hospital, Montreal, Quebec
1959-09-02 — First clasp to Canadian Forces Decoration approved; forwarded 2 October and acknowledged in October — No. 11 TSU, Montreal, Quebec
1960 — Qualifying-result card: Trade R (registered, did not write); other subjects coded P, no overall full pass established — No. 11 TSU, Montreal, Quebec
1960-01-25 to 1960-02-12 — Release medical board recommended fit for NON-MEDICAL release, A4B; approval followed — RCAF Station St. Hubert, Quebec
1960-03-09 to 1960-03-31 — Twenty-three days annual leave — Montreal / Ste. Rose, Quebec
1960-03-10 — Partial upper and lower dentures inserted — No. 17 Dental Clinic, Montreal, Quebec
1960-04-04 to 1960-05-03 — Reached compulsory retirement age 45; thirty days annual leave; AFHQ non-effective posting for records only — Montreal, Quebec; Air Force Headquarters, Ottawa, Ontario
1960-04-11 — Elected continuation of Supplementary Death Benefit after retirement; submitted 18 April — 171 Roseval Street, Ste. Rose, Quebec
1960-04-18 — Requested P.O. Box 783 be added because Ste. Rose had no house mail delivery — 171 Roseval Street, Ste. Rose, Quebec
1960-05-04 to 1960-06-02 — Thirty days special retirement leave — Ste. Rose, Quebec
1960-06-03 to 1960-10-21 — 141 days rehabilitation leave — Ste. Rose, Quebec
1960-06-29 — Elected ten-year pension-contribution arrears repayment, $5.82 monthly — 171 Roseval Street, Ste. Rose, Quebec
1960-06-29 — Declined participation in offered group surgical-medical insurance plan — 171 Roseval Street, Ste. Rose, Quebec
1960-10-21 — Honourably released for compulsory retirement age, Flying Officer, Retired List Regular; pensionable service 23 years 141 days — No. 11 TSU, Montreal, Quebec
1960-10-22 — Annuity commenced, $2,762.57 annually; initial net monthly $222.39 after arrears/death-benefit deductions — 171 Roseval Street, Ste. Rose, Quebec
1961-01-06 — Certificate of Retirement forwarded in appreciation of faithful service — 171 Roseval Street, Ste. Rose, Quebec
1962-04-06 — Final $16.45 re-establishment credit authorized to close account — Ste. Rose, Quebec
1962-11-30 — Directed cessation of $12.38 monthly group surgical-medical insurance premium from 1 December — Ste. Rose, Quebec
1969-11-24 — Canadian Pension Commission denied right supraspinatus-tendinitis pension claim; distinguished left-shoulder service complaints — Ottawa, Ontario
1977-04-18 to 1977-05-12 — Requested clarification of Supplementary Death Benefit; department confirmed participation and reduced premiums/coverage — 125 Ashington Road, Pointe-Claire, Quebec, H9R 2Z1
1993-07-22 to 1993-09-02 — Requested entire military file; National Archives supplied copies — 125 Ashington Road, Pointe-Claire, Quebec, H9R 2Z1
1993-10 — Health-plan correspondence confirmed subscription at death and offered widow continued membership — Pointe-Claire, Quebec
1993-10-03 — Died suddenly aged 78 — Lakeshore General Hospital, Pointe-Claire, Quebec
1993-10-07 — Funeral service at Collins Clarke MacGillivray White chapel, 11:30 a.m.; interment Montreal Memorial Park Cemetery — Pointe-Claire, Quebec
1993-10-19 to 1993-11-10 — Widow Joan executrix/sole beneficiary; survivor annuity and $5,000 death benefit arranged — 125 Ashington Road, Pointe-Claire, Quebec, H9R 2Z1
1997-04-29 — Widow Joan Caroline Dawson died, funeral 2 May and Cataraqui cremation — Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ontario
1997-10-16 — Widow-estate pension overpayment $1,694.91 recovered and cleared — Amherstview, Ontario