Biographical Data
Shearer, Thomas R. If you have images associated with this Person, please contact us at admin@nauticapedia.ca

 

Title	Flight Sub-Lieutenant (RNAS)
Official Number	(nk)

 

Birth	16/08/1894	Death	13/06/1917
Place	Pointe Claire	Place	(Killed in action)
Area	QC	Area
Country	Canada	Country	Belgium (Killed in action)

 

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Biography

 

Military Service
He served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. (Transferred to RNAS) He was appointed as a Probationary Flight Sub-Lieutenant (Temp.) RNAS. He was appointed as a Flight Sub-Lieutenant (Temp.) RNAS. He served in 9 (RNAS) Squadron.

 

Vessels Owned
Aircraft Flown	Service Aircraft Flown: Sopwith Triplane
Named Features

 

Anecdotes
Returning from a patrol, he entered a spin in his Sopwith Triplane and crashed three miles from the Naval 9 Squadron home field.

 

References
Hiorth, D. (1995); Grant, Scottie & Bob Murray (nd); MacFarlane, John and Robbie Hughes (1997);
Last update
2011-02-15 00:00:00

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