User:Lars714

Introduction

Amateur historian living in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. Recently retired from Canadian Armed Forces (Air Navigator, Major)

Areas of Interest

Wilmot and Aylesford Townships


 * Physical History of The Annapolis Valley area, with a particular focus on the Wilmot and Aylesford Township areas
 * Pioneers of the Wilmot and Aylesford Townships (those who lived in these townships before 1800)
 * History of small and forgotten communities of the area
 * Black history of the Annapolis Valley

Second World War


 * Aircraft accidents of missions flown from:

RAF Station Greenwood RCAF Station Greenwood


 * Field searches for aircraft accidents in the general area around Greenwood, Nova Scotia


 * Researching and cataloging all RAF and RCAF crashes that occurred from 1941 to 1955 over Nova Scotia


 * 415 (Torpedo Bomber) Squadron - the RCAF's only TB Squadron in Coastal Command
 * 415 (Bomber) Squadron - 1944 and 1945 after transferring from Coastal Command, flying from East Moor
 * 404 (Coastal Fighter) Squadron - the Buffalo Squadron, 1941-1945 at www.404squadron.ca
 * 14 Wing History (CFB Greenwood)

Royal Navy


 * Royal Navy Burying Ground - CFB Halifax

logging all interments in the Burial Ground (currently over 1000) for eventual publication initial efforts to have the site recognized as a provincial or even national historic site archiving photo survey of the site generation of ship's list of the RN sailors interred in the field