Card, A L (Arnold Lindsay)
Warrant Officer Arnold Card was born on the 25th Jan 1918. He was the son of Anna McGuire and Lloyd Harrison Card from Wolfe Island, Canada and resided in Montreal at the time of his enlistment.
Arnold had previously served with the 2nd Battalion (Canadian), Black Watch for a month during January/February 1941 but for reasons unknown he left, re-joining the RCAF[1] during May of the same year. He earned his Flying Badge during February 1942, and his ambitions were to continue flying either commercially or with the RCAF.
On the 15th of Feb 1943, Arnold was flying in a Miles M.25 Martinet I[2] Target Tug, HP133 along with Aircraftman 1st Class, William Alexander Moore[3] of the Royal Air Force, in bad weather.
Unfortunately for the two men, the pilot had misjudged their position on the map, and they flew directly into a hill about 7 miles east of a village called Cranagh in County Tyrone. The plane instantly burst into flames. Two badly charred bodies were later recovered.
A few days later both men were laid to rest in Faughanvale (Saint Canice) Churchyard with full military honours.
Date of Death: 15/03/1943 (Aged 25)
Service: Warrant Officer Class II (Pilot), Royal Canadian Air Force, 131 Operational Training Unit.
Service Number: R/79452
Burial Location: Faughanvale (Saint Canice) Church of Ireland Churchyard, Grave 5.
[1] The RCAF is the Royal Canadian Air Force.
[2] The Miles M.25 Martinet I was first flown on the 24th of April 1942 and went out of production in 1945. It was a two-seater plane used as a Target Tug. It would basically fly an unmanned drone behind it for training ground gunners to fire live ammunition at. Less than 2000 were built.
[3] Aircraftman 1st Class, William Alexander Moore is also buried in this cemetery.