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2024 additions and updates

  • Index page now snowing and Xmas Greetings
  • ROAR November 2024 added
  • Claude Dixon and John England obituries added
  • Remembrance Day 2024 - An Interview with "Doc" Payne
  • Dale Horley and Gordon Nicolas obituaries added
  • S/L John England and Nathan Isaacs(WW II)obituaries added
  • updates on a few links, photos taken by a Squadron Photographer uploaded, several obits further modified
  • ROAR May 2024 issue posted
  • updated obituaries, Tony Bosman, Bob Precott, Wayne Durkee, Dick Kaye, Keith Lavender, Lucky Lawson, Andrew Mercer, Ted Millar, Ed Rozdeba, Slim Schneider, Bruce Sheasby, Wally Sloan, Bill Wright
  • added missing biography for SCWO Mark Jones
  • 2023 GoL NOW to take place now on April 5 & 6, 2024 in conjunction with RCAF Cenntenial Ball

2023 additions and updates

  • 2023 GoL to take place on April 12& 13 2024 in conjunction with RCAF Cenntenial Ball
  • November ROAR posted
  • Willie Floyd obituary added
  • Charles Procter Obituary added
  • Updated Videos page
  • Photos from SPAADS 2022 Montreal. Courtesy of Dean Black, Director, Air Force Association.
  • Videos and photos donated by Heather & Hugh Bacon
  • new Videos from "back in the day" filmed by the National Film Board
  • Fixed several links-more to be done. Please report any broken links
  • May ROAR posted
  • Helicopter history page updated
  • Clarence Kenneth Derry obituary added
  • Fran McNaughton obituary
  • Splash page changed to normal

2022 additions and updates

  • Splash page changed for xmas
  • Roar - November 2022 Issue posted
  • Beth MacLellan obituary
  • Chuck Page Obituary at 102
  • GoL notice November 25/26 2022 - 80th Anniversary
  • Update Membership Form & fix links
  • Fixing/Editing
  • Danny Kaye's Diary Comments
  • Fixing/Editing
  • Report on Harry's birthday celebration
  • Harry Winter's 100th Birthday
  • ROAR May 2022 Issue
  • Obit for Pete Harrison
  • 2021 Financial Report
  • Hank Gritter obituary added
  • 422 Squadron Link updated
  • Update of membership page but more checking needed
  • Added new link on Homepage side bar "Looking For...". Members'searches for long lost friends
  • Modified ROAR headers
  • Bio added for Kathryn Poudrier

2021 additions and updates

  • Christmas Greeting
  • All Doc Payne interview videos added
  • Cobden Remembrance Day Service
  • November ROAR Issue added
  • 100,110 feet-One for the Record by Bud White
  • Obits for Arthur Barker, Bill Brown, Doug Riddell, Keith Patrick, Ron Potter and Swede Larsen
  • Added Air Div Report June 1, 1959 to November 30, 1959
  • Link fixed for several links - All posted should now work
  • Obit for Joe Couillard
  • Obit for Shawn Coyle
  • Dave Lowdon's story - Back in the Day-A Helicopter Story
  • A link to Dick Dunn's website and book
  • Membership list updated
  • ROAR - May 2021 posted and added
  • Eric Mold's books
  • The Bob Penrose Story
  • Bob Penrose obituary posted
  • Night of the Generals story added
  • Modified Remember page & proved links
  • Posted obituary for Major General James Hanna
  • Finished posting all ROARs to the web site
  • Combined Final Financial Report 2020/2019/2018

2020 additions and updates.

  • Dick Dunn awarded the Lionheart award
  • Normal front page-Sleigh Operating notes to Stories
  • Added Xmas splash page and Sleigh Operating notes
  • Added ROAR Vol 1 issue 2 and issue 4
  • Obits added for Ken Fowler, Vincent Warwick and Paddy Lawrence
  • Finance Report 11 months of 2020
  • Book Review of LOACH pilot added
  • GUARDAIR historical data found
  • Bio added for Ed Gosden, Sask Wilford, Dick Dunn
  • Updated AboutUs links
  • Bio added for Michael Dabros, Bruce Carnegie
  • ROAR November 2020 posted
  • Bio added for Rick Findley, Wayne MacLellan, Walt Pirie, Rick McLaughlin
  • George Little obituary
  • Bios added for Ken Sorfleet, Timothy Riutta Bryon Mask and Rick Barker
  • Remembrance Day motif added for 427Squadron.com
  • Bio/Books/Story file modified to ease access
  • Tom Osler obituary
  • Change of Command - New CO LCol François Lavertu
  • LCol Lavertu's biography posted
  • Alfred Holmes Obituary
  • Minor web site errors fixed
  • All ROARs from 1996 now on web site
  • Bio/Book/Story page on web site updated
  • Update report on Chuck's Birthday
  • Chuck Page - His Wartime Story
  • updated Derek Brinkley & Allen Horten Obit
  • new link - aviation.net/li>
  • Chuck Page initial
  • added 2019 final finance report
  • added some new links
  • ROAR Volume 5, Issue 2 - May, 2020 published
  • Minor web site errors corrected and links fixed
  • Allan Todd obituary
  • BGen Clancy bio added, updated BGen Whale bio
  • ROAR errors and typos corrected
  • Bob Chisholm obituary added
  • Derek Brinkley obituary added

2019 additions and updates.

  • 2019 Finance Report to end of November 2019
  • ROAR Volume 5 Issue 1 - December 2019 published
  • Obituary for Colleen Young, Bernie Hamel
  • Obituary for Neil Lakins
  • Obituary for Bill Grip
  • 2019 GoL Report
  • 2019 GoL Invitation
  • Added another Sabre era photo album by Neil Lakins
  • Obituary for Don McNaughton
  • Obituary for Ian Thompson (WW II)
  • Editorial fixes and broken links fixed
  • added info to Hank Siemans Obit
  • Obituary for Chuck Reed
  • re-did the albums at history/f_86.html with J album
  • Obituaries for Garth Mawhinney and Hank Siemens
  • A Histroy of the Canadian Forces Network {CFN)in Air Division
  • Harry Siemans Story
  • bios for LCol Jeremy Fountain & HonCol Lianne Ing
  • Link added - Veterans Discount Guide
  • posted obituaries for Raplh Annis,Jim Bridges, Bill Hind
  • Harry Winter, W/Op Air - His Story as a POW
  • posted obituary for Hon/Col Del Lippert
  • changed index and page_1 back to regular

2018 additions and updates

  • fixed broken link to 427 SOAS
  • changed index & page_1 to Xmas
  • index page back to standard crest
  • Harry Winter's Travels in 2018
  • change of index page to remembrance header until November 11
  • Obit for Walt Scott
  • changed Logo to 427 Lion Squadron Association
  • notified and added Walter Charles McInnes to Remember page
  • Change of Command - L/Col Jeremy Fountain new CO
  • The International Bomber Command Centre dedication added
  • Last Call - SPAADS reunion Vancouver September 7 - 10, 2018
  • Lieutenant-General Chris Coates, former CO of 427,2004-06, assumes NORAD post
  • Obits added for Ed Carter-Edwuards and Keith Graham
  • Honourary Colonel Del Lippert finishes tour
  • Obit added for Jim Mar
  • New ROAR - January 2018

2017 additions and updates.

  • Added home page link for Facebook Page
  • Home page back to "normal"
  • modified enter and home page for Christmas
  • Changed index and remember page to reflect November 11
  • 75th Anniversary Report and Links
  • Cenotaph Dedication photos - October 15, 2017
  • GoL Dinner photos
  • GoL Dinner brochure added
  • Lionheart award presented to H/Col Del Lippert by the Association at the GoL Dinner, October 14, 2017
  • Cenotaph Dedication Speech by Walt Pirie representing the Association
  • Cenotaph completed and photos
  • Obit added for Tom Reid
  • Updated GoL information
  • Update cenotaph information
  • Obit added for Danny Kaye
  • Obits added for Earl McCurdy, Jim Moffat and Beau Warrian
  • GoL 2017 information
  • Updated Cenotaph fund raising
  • Updated Cenotaph names
  • Cenotaph Lion updated photos
  • Financial Report 2016
  • Update ROAR link
  • An email from Dan Dempsey- The Sarnia Golden Hawk
  • Added Updated Cenotaph Brochure
  • Ed McKeogh photo album added
  • Posted some 1959 maps
  • Modified 427 Green Book into Chapters to load faster
  • Modified ROAR selection for printing

2016 additions and updates.

  • several minor updates
  • Another chapter of Vern White's book added
  • F/L R.J. Hayhurst added to Remember page
  • Adding more chapters to Vern White's book
  • Missing casuality added to 24 March 1944 ops log
  • Added another reference link to W/C Burside's Remember page
  • John McCrae's War, an NFB video for November 11
  • 2016 October ROAR
  • AFA's Cenotaph Fund Raising appeal
  • SPAADS report and photos by Dick Dunn
  • Added "Green Book"
  • 2016 SPAADS reunion video
  • Added F86 Photos_See 427 History/F86
  • link updates and other edits
  • Claude LaFrance obituary added
  • 427 Sqn. aircrew names 1942-1970
  • Minor editing changes
  • Memorial fund raising information
  • 2016 Change of Command from L/Col Jeff Orr to L/Col Clay Rook
  • Biography updated for Major General Christian Drouin
  • CF-104 Starfighter article added
  • Updated CF-104 page, added photos
  • Recently notified obituaries,see front page side bar
  • Final 2015 Treasurer's Report
  • Spring ROAR, Volume 3 Issue 3
  • Recently notified obituaries, see front page side bar

2015 additions and updates.

  • Recently notified obituary for Ken Williams
  • Squadron Information regarding the 2016 Gathering of Lions
  • Recently notified obituary for Roy Newman, R211930
  • Recently notified obituary for James Gordon Joy, John Smart, Chet Randall, Don Buchanan, Doug Nicholson
  • Recently notified obituary for Robert John (Bob) Macaulay, Ernest Wood, Howell Young
  • Recently notified obituary for James Thomas Head
  • New Treasurer & address change
  • New Tax Deduction information
  • 2014 Revised Financial Report
  • Sask retires as Treasurer
  • Peter Moyer obituary
  • 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain - Ottawa
  • 427 WW II Ops Orders by Weldon Moffatt
  • Sgt Ed Carter_Edwards - Buchenwald POW - His story
  • 2014 Finance added
  • ROAR Volume 3 #2
  • Update membership lists
  • Additional obituaries
  • John Shute obituary
  • Honouray Colonel Delbert Lippert biography added
  • Defence Connexion
  • LegionConnect message
  • Gathering of Lions - 2015
  • Colonel (R) Rick McLaughlin biography

2014 additions and updates.

  • ROAR November 2014
  • Added Site Map
  • Gordon Ockwell & Nickolaus Mulikow obituaries added
  • New ROAR editor Dean Black welcomed
  • Tiny Barnett obituary
  • SPAADS reunion 2014, Victoria,B.C.
  • John Jackaman story added to Helicopter file
  • Biography of new CO at 427
  • Al McMullan obituary
  • Rob Robichaud obituary
  • Jim Pugh obituary
  • The Bud Foxton Story
  • ROAR - April 2014
  • Weldon Moffatt's file went public
  • D-Day & Normandy Vets notice to travel for anniversary
  • Added latest obits
  • Financial Report - 2013
  • Norm McSween's CF-104 Album
  • Cold Warriors - The Story of a Starfighter Mission

2013 additions and updates.

  • Sabre photos added
  • Membership list updated and Lost Trails incorporated. Lost Trails page cancelled.
  • Aircrew Remembered added to Links
  • WW II Photos from Leeming, courtesy of Jim Craik
  • Photos from Air Division from Bud White and Jim Craik
  • Veterans who took part in D-Day-New medal See page 1 or News
  • Added Membership Application to Page 1
  • ROAR November 2013
  • Links page updated
  • Passing of W/C Pat Higgs
  • add to Remember page
  • Passing of W/C Bob Middlemiss
  • Kaathoven Memorial
  • Modifed Lost Trails, Remember
  • ROAR April 2013
  • Lost Trails
  • 2012 Financial Report
  • Video of the Adoption of 427 Squadron by MGM - 1943
  • Video of W/C D.R. (Doc) Payne - RCAF Career - Part 1
  • Photos and Videos of the Celebration of Life for Jack Frazer

2012 additions and updates.

  • Jack Frazer obituary
  • Don Buckler obituary
  • ROAR November 2012
  • Gathering of the Lions - 2012 -70th Anniversary
  • Photos of the Bomber Command Memorial ceremony. Compliments of Harry Winter and Son- July
  • Video of Canadian veterans and the Bomber Command Memorial ceremony - July
  • Don Laidler obituary - April
  • Chester Hull obituary - April
  • Membership list added - March
  • Reg Smith obituary - March
  • Membership Directory - February
  • Membership & Finance - 2012 February
  • Mynarski Memorial Lancaster Flight Video February
  • Spitfire Mark 1 Restoration- February
  • "Beer Carrying" Spitfires - February
  • My Flight to Malta by W/C(Ret.) Bob Middlemiss - February
  • Interview Video of H/Col Bob Middlemiss - February
  • Testimonial for H/Col Bob Middlemiss - February
  • Added 434 Squadron (WW II) link & updated Jack Milner's latest to 422 Squadron - February
  • Added "Great Escape Tunnel Found" - February
  • Vern White's book being added(12 units out of 23)to Bio/Book/Story - January
  • Add "The Story of Flight Lieutenant George Theodore Berg" - January
  • Add "Two Lads from Weyburn" story - January
  • Add Alex "Lou" Fellner"s wartime crash - January
  • Update Lost Trails list - January
  • Google Translation option added - January
  • Add bio for Joe Burns - January
  • Add link to 422 Squadron site - January
  • Recode Alan Todd's bio - January

2011 additions and updates.

  • Doc Payne Story(CO 427, 1959-60) added - December
  • Vern White's book being added (8 units out of 23)to Bio/Book/Story - December
  • G/C Dudley Burnside pictures added - December
  • Remembrance day activities with Hon. Col. Bob Middlemiss - December
  • Len Pratt's obit added- December
  • Emil Zuber's obit added- December
  • re_worked and expanded Bio/Book/Story- November
  • Interesting Links added- October
  • October 2011 ROAR added - October
  • Yellow Wings brochure - September
  • 2011 GOL notification added - September
  • Added photos of Bob attending and speaking at Buzz Beurling dedication - September
  • Added 427 Squadron Commanding Officers from 1942 to 1970 - August
  • More monthly War Diary and Operations Log files modified to document format from scanned pages - July
  • Added Bob Ayres & Sam Firth obituaries - June
  • Added two newspaper articles covering Camp Borden tribute and museum to honour W/C Bob Middlemiss - June
  • Belatedly added Canadian Starfighter Association Link - June
  • Added/deleted Links - May
  • Camp Borden Tribute to Hon/Col Bob Middlemiss - May
  • ROAR added - March
  • Generic Sabre booklet added - March
  • Canadair Sabre 6 Handbook added - March
  • All monthly wartime logs completed - March
  • June, August, October, November, December 1944 wartime monthly logs completed - February
  • March, April, May 1945 wartime monthly log completed - February
  • Globe and Mail Obituary for W/C Pete St. Louis - February
  • February 1945 wartime monthly log completed - February
  • Finance and Membership Update - January
  • January 1945 wartime monthly log - January

2010 additions and updates.

  • Pete St. Louis obituary - December
  • Memoirs - November
  • Google site and web search to each main page - November
  • More videos accessed from Home, News - November
  • "The Middlemiss Video" accessed from Home or Biographies (About Us) - November
  • "The Vogan File"(material from son) accessed from the obit - November
  • GOL 2010 Report into news - November
  • Biographies now available from About Us - November
  • Photo of W/C St. Louis and W/C Middlemiss on handover of 427 Diary - October
  • 1960 3 (F) Wing, Zweibrucken, Germany Information Booklet - October
  • All course photos from Sabre OTU at Chatam, N.B. - September
  • Ted Hessel ~1960 Photos from 3 Wing - September
  • Wartime logs from November,1942 to May,1944 now in new colours. - September
  • Keith Rattew 1986 Photos from 427 SPAADS reunion in Vancouver - September
  • Pictures regarding Spitfire gift for Bob Middlemiss - September
  • Biography and pictures on the ocassion of HCol Middlemiss's 90th birthday - August
  • Article from Col. Christian Drouin, Wing Commander, Kandahar - July
  • Pictures from memorial unveiling for the crew of Halifax LV836 - May
  • Modified Home intro - May
  • March 2010 ROAR - March
  • 427 SOAS Official web site link - March
  • New links-see Home page - February
  • Changed web design & colour - January

2009 additions and updates

  • GOL 2009 Report(Dec. 2009)
  • 67th anniversary Booklet - GOL 2009(Nov. 2009)
  • New search engine added(Oct. 2009)
  • Added ROAR October 2009/Lost Trails(Oct. 2009)
  • New ROAR mailed on October 20, 2009
  • Added GOL Poster 2009(Sep 2009)
  • Added "Sick List"(May 2009)
  • Family Reunion at Crash Site (June 2009)
  • Comox- 100 years of Flight in Canada(May 2009)
  • Update Membership/Finance(Apr.2009)
  • Added new link, minor changes(Apr.2009)
  • April 1944 log finished(Mar.2009)
  • Changed layout/added search(Mar.2009)
  • Added time and temperature icons- (Jan.2009)
  • Added Mar.1944 to WW 11 file - (Jan.2009)
  • Updated Lost Trails (under News) - (Jan.2009)

2008 additions and updates

  • Added Jan. & Feb. 1944 to WW 11 file - (Nov.2008)
  • Un-inserting finger so ENTER now works - (Nov.2008)
  • ROAR Issue 4 included - (Oct.2008)
  • 66th GOL Invitation in NEWS - (Sep. 2008)
  • ROAR Issue 3 included - (Sep.2008
  • 427 SPAADS at Quebec in NEWS - (Sep.2008)
  • Re-designed web site - (Sep. 2008)
 

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