Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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FLYING OFFICER B. D. RUSSEL SUB-LIEUTENANT L. R. MCLERNON Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross Awarded the Distinguished Service Cross

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SUB LIEUTENANT G. H. K. STRATHY Killed in Action FLYING OFFICER H. L. GORDON Killed on Active Service

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 17 ON ACTIVE SERVICE Extracts from a Letter Written by a Young Pilot in the R.A.F. y 12th September, 1940. Our first do yesterday . . . and quite the greatest thrill of this life. We are they who were mentioned on the news as operating with the crack Polack Squadron and dealing with sundry enemy. I should imagine the sights we see would put even H. G. Wells to shame . . . even at his most fantastic. How- ever everything seems to be on our side . . . except numbers . . . but even with that slight disadvantage it's easier to have more enemy than yourselves to get in the way. I got one of the two probables that were mentioned. Life is good . . . it's fun to be defending the heart of the Empire at 20,000 feet and more, though even we can't prevent bombs dropping. Extracts from Letters Written by Sub-Lieutenant Geoffrey Scott, R.C.N.V.R. One day at Hove, eight of our class of 25 Canadians were asked to volunteer for a special job involving demoli- tion work in Fra.nce. It was to be a special draft, and we were to return to the King Alfred a few days later, supposedly. But it turned out that we went to France and had to wait nearly three weeks before we blew up our objectives and came back to England. Two of the eight who were chosen were put in other parties, and six of us remained together and went to the same French port. At present I don't suppose that I am allowed to tell you what port it was, although I'm sure it wouldn't make any differ- ence, but later on I'll tell you all about it. Having arrived there, we found that there was no- thing for us to do just yet, so we simply settled down in