21 August 1949

21 PERSONS DIED IN A PLANE CRASH INCLUDING THREE RADIO OPERATORS

A Canso R.C.A.F. military aircraft crashed and burned in Manitoba on 21 August 1949 killing everyone onboard. Amongst the 21 victims were three radio operators, all married men returning to their families, who had spent two or more years in the Arctic, at Clyde River on Baffin Island.

Addison Bruce Neill was one of the three Radio Operators killed in the crash.

 

Glencoe, Ont, August 24, 1949 (CP)... Still too stunned to cry, attractive Doreen Neill sat on the veranda of her home in this Middlesex county village Wednesday night and watched her eight-year-old twins, Alec and David, jostling for possession of a toy auto. The other child, four-year-old Richard, was sleeping. A short time before, John and his mother listened to a radio broadcast that told them that the husband and father was among the 21 persons who perished in the crash of the R.C.A.F. Canso aircraft in northern Manitoba. Addison B. Neill, 40-year-old transport department operator, was returning home from a four-year tour of duty at Clyde River in Baffin Land.

 

Addison Bruce Neill was born in 1908 in Glencoe, Ontario

He was 41 years old when he died in August 1949 in a plane crash

(see his tombstone below)

Tombstone at the Elmira Union Cemetery in Waterloo County, Ontario