Miscellaneous

The First 1,000 RCAF Service Numbers


If you joined the RCAF before 1966 – you would have been issued an RCAF service number. For some unknown reason – most of us who were issued with an RCAF service number can still recite their service number today with little to no hesitation. In 1966, the government did away with RCAF service numbers and carried on with Social Insurance Numbers (SIN). Bah – what was becoming of the military?

Every now and then – I have wondered who held the lowest service number(s) in the RCAF. I have typed many official RCAF Historical Reports and made this detail available on the web site. In keeping with my unanswered quest of "Who held the lowest service number(s) in the RCAF" I have made a note of name, rank and service number – as well as the appropriate Historical Report reference for you - the reader.

Just another example of "nice to know" RCAF military detail. <grin>


Service #

Rank

Name

Reference

3

A/V/M

Steadman, Ernest Walter

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

4

A/M

Johnson, George Owen

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

6

G/C

Hobbs, Basil Deacon

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

7

A/V/M

Lawrence, Thomas Albert

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

8

A/C

Wait, George Enoch

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

9

A/V/M

Cowley, Arthur Thomas Noel

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

10

A/C

Tackaberry, Stanley Gibson

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

11

A/V/M

Ferrier, Alan

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

25

G/C

Fullerton, Elmer Garfield

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

30

A/M

Edwards, Harold

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

31

A/V/M

Stevenson, Leigh Forbes

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

33

A/V/M

Howsam, George Roberts

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

34

A/V/M

Guthrie, Kenneth McGregor

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

35

WO1

Painter, Phillip William

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

38

A/C

Mossop, Neron Frederick

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

39

A/C/M

Breadner, Lloyd Samuel

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

40

A/V/M

Anderson, Norman Russell

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

41

A/V/M

Walsh, George Victor

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

42

A/V/M

Brookes, George Eric

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

49

G/C

Mawdesley, Frederick Joseph

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

50

A/V/M

De Niverville, Joseph Lionel AA

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

53

G/C

Harding, David Allan

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

54

A/C

Wait, Frank Goddell

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

55

G/C

Campbell, Archibald Patrick

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

56

A/V/M

Heakes, Francis Vernon

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

57

A/V/M

Morfee, Arthur Laurence

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

60

A/V/M

McEwan, Clifford McKay

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

61

G/C

Grandy, Roy Stanley

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

65

A/V/M

Croil, George Mitchell

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

71

A/V/M

Slemon, Charles Roy

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

74

A/C

Brown, Walter Whitson

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

75

G/C

London, Richard Arthur

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

76

G/C

MacCaul, Donald Harvey

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

77

A/C

Johnson, Allan Lawrence

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

81

A/C

Middleton, Elwood Edward

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

82

G/C

Lewis, Alexander

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

83

A/V/M

James, Arthur Lorne

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945, Foymount 1 Sep 53

90

G/C

Adams, Albert Oliver

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

96

A/C

McBurney, Ralph Edward

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

97

A/C

Johnson, Bertram Frederick

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

99

A/V/M

Godwin, Harold Brandon

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945, SU Metz, 16 Oct 56

100

A/C

Dunlap, Clarence Rupert

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

101

G/C

Sampson, Frank Augustus

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

103

G/C

Trecarten, Clive Leonard

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

105

G/C

McGowan, Edwin Archibald

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

111

A/C

Ross, Arthur Dwight

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

112

A/C

Costello, Martin

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards Post World War II

116

A/C

Bryans, John George

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

121

S/L

Gobeil, Fowler Morgan

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

126

G/C

Edwards, Douglas Muir

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

127

A/V/M

Wray, Lawrence Edward

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945, Edgar 8 Jun 55

130

A/C

Kerr, John Gordon

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

131

A/C

Hurley, Joseph Louis

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

132

A/V/M

Campbell, Hugh Lester

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

134

G/C

McNab, Ernest Archibald

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

135

G/C

Jones, Wilfred Alexander

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

138

A/C

Clements, William Isaac

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945, SU Metz 16 Oct 56

139

A/C

Miller, Frank Robert

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

140

A/C

Plant, John Lawrence

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

144

A/C

Bennett, Walter Edwin

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

146

A/C

Orr, Walter Alyn

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

148

G/C

Carscallen, Henry Myles

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

149

G/C

Rutledge, Herbert Hugh Carvell

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

150

G/C

Truscott, Gordon George

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

154

A/C

Smith, Douglas McCully

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

158

G/C

Cowan, Sydney Godwin

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

160

G/C

Easton, John Alvin

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

166

A/V/M

Bradshaw, Douglas Alexander R

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945, 1 Air Div HQ 18 Jul 63

168

A/V/M

Lister, Murray Duncan

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945, Moisie 15 Sep 64

171

W/C

Dunlop, Gorden Parker

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

172

G/C

Carling-Kelly, Fitzroy Cavendish

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

173

G/C

MacBrien, William Ross

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

174

G/C

Kennedy, Walter Edmund

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

175

W/C

Mitchell, Eric Martin

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

177

G/C

Verner, James Abercrombie

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

178

G/C

Greenway, Charles Henry

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

181

G/C

Hendrick, Max Morton

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

183

G/C

Davis, Ralph Cargill

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

185

G/C

Millard, Stephen James

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

186

WO1

Bongard, Kenneth John

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

188

G/C

Baskerville, Patrick George

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

189

G/C

Ripley, Robert Campbell

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

192

G/C

Colpitts, Henry Garnder Moore

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

196

W/C

Annis, Clare Levi

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

223

W/C

Begg, Roy Franklin

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

229

W/C

Berven, John L

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

235

A/M

Bishop, William Avery

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

247

WO2

Johnstone, James

Metz Jul 54

249

W/C

Bryant, H

Edgar 30 Jul 55

264

W/C

Bundy, Wilfred John

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

265

W/C

Burgess, Charles Walter

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

273

W/C

Watts, JH

Foymount 20 Aug 53

284

S/L

Clark, Cecil Herbert

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

286

WO2

Burdes, John Robert

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

288

S/L

Clement, Robert James

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

290

W/C

Jordan, JS

SU Metz 19 May 61

299

S/L

Corbett, Vaughan Bowerman

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

310

S/L

Chodat, LR

Foymount 31 May 55

317

A/V/M

Curtis, Wilfred Austin

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

325

G/C

Davoud, Paul Yettvart

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

333

S/L

Whittaker, George Cosgrove

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards Post WWII, 2(F) Wing 1955

349

W/C

Drynan, Norman Livingstone

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

357

S/L

Battison, FH

St. Margarets 1 Dec 53

364

FS

Calow, Thomas Arthur

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

373

G/C

Foss, Roy Holmes

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

374

G/C

Fraser, Martin Pare

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

376

WO1

Periton, Rodney Davis

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

378

W/C

Galloway, Donald Eaton

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

386

G/C

Gardner, Edward Robertson

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

387

S/L

Gledhill, John Whitely

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

392

WO1

MacLean, Harold

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

409

G/C

Hanna, William Fielding

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

428

S/L

Hodgson, Wesley Bert

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

430

WO1

Squire, Morley

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

448

WO1

Gale, Cecil Melvin

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

450

A/C

Irwin, George Norman

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

451

S/L

Ivermee, Robert William Alex

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

452

W/C

Jacobi, George Wilson

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

453

S/L

Kerr, K

SU Metz 16 Oct 56

459

S/L

Johnstone, Noram Richard

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

471

W/C

Kennedy, Harry Marlowe

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

475

S/L

Kimball, George Frederick

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

485

W/C

Langford, Herman Hamilton

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

495

W/C

Manders, David Frederick

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

496

W/C

Leigh, Zubulon Lewis

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

508

G/C

Luke, Edawrd Corbus

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

535

W/C

Moncrieff, Ernest Hutchison Glen

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

544

G/C

Murray, Walter Allan

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

551

G/C

MacGregor, Normal Sinclair

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

557

W/C

MacPherson, Ewart Gladstone

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

564

G/C

McFarlane, William John

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

565

A/V/M

McGill, Frank Scholes

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

581

W/C

McMillan, Stanley Ranson

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

585

A/V/M

Nairn, Kenneth Gordon

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

593

A/C

O’Brian, Geoffrey Stewart

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

602

G/C

Patriarche, Valance Heath

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

615

F/L

Pitcher, Paul Brooke

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

616

G/C

Pollock, William Romeo

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

619

WO

Horton, Guy Robeson

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

621

A/V/M

Raymond, Adelard

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

626

W/C

Richer, Joseph Albert Dollard

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

635

W/C

Ross, George Morrison

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

638

G/C

Ross, Willaim Waldon

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

640

A/C

Russell, Arthur Herbert Keith

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

646

S/L

Scott, Robert Clare

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

647

W/C

Sellers, George Henry

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

664

S/L

Smith, Franklin Ernest William

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

677

G/C

Stewart, Hugh Ronald

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

686

A/V/M

Sully, John Alfred

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

692

S/L

Swanbergson, Elinor Ingeberg

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

698

S/L

Thompson, Victor Wentworth

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

723

G/C

Watts, Alfred

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

725

W/C

Weaver, Edward Alfred

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

740

WO

Johnson, William Frank

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

770

W/C

Archambault, Leon Gustov

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

773

W/C

Fee, John Clark

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

774

W/C

Carpenter, Frederick Stanley

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

775

G/C

Birchall, Leonard Joseph

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945 & Post WWII

778

W/C

Smith, William McKay

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945, SU Metz 16 Oct 56

784

W/C

Anderson, Norman Stanley Alton

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

785

W/C

Searle, Arthur Brodie

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

786

G/C

St. Pierre, Joseph Menard William

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

788

W/C

Desloges, John Paul Joseph

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

790

G/C

Harvey, James Borden

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

795

S/L

Marcou, Howard Fortescue

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

797

WO2

Matheson, John A (Jack)

2 Wing Headquarters 1961-1964

799

W/C

Harnett, Thomas Patrick

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

805

W/C

Hiltz, George Abner

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

806

W/C

Reyno, Edwin Michael

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

807

W/C

Hodson, Keith Louis Bate

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

809

W/C

McDiarmid, Maxwell Curtis

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

818

W/C

Diamond, Gerald Gordon

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

819

W/C

Delaney, Peter Scott

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945, SU Metz 19 May 61

823

F/L

Stephen, William MacDowell

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

827

G/C

Waddell, Robert Charles Arthur

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

832

S/L

Johnston, Edward Russell

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

834

G/C

Randall, Lawson Hunter

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945, SU Metz 16 Oct 56

835

W/C

Scott, John Charles

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

836

S/L

Willis, Charles Albert

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945, Foymount 7 Jun 54

841

W/C

Ball, Frank Westoby

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

846

W/C

Blackburn, Arthur Paul

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

853

S/L

Cowan, Emerson Weldon

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

854

F/L

Butts, Robert Anthony

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

858

A/C

Sharpe, Frederick Ralph

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945, Moisie 1 Apr 64

860

G/C

Stephenson, John Gray

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

861

S/L

Laut, Albin

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

864

W/C

Foley, George Joseph

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

867

W/C

Kent, William Charles

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945, Foymount 11 Oct 54

868

W/C

Lipton, Lawrence

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

869

G/C

McCormick, Gerald Emmett

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

871

W/C

Ruttan, Charles Graham

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

872

W/C

Emind, Joseph Rosario AE

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

873

W/C

Van Camp, William Charles

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

874

W/C

Middleton, Robert Bruce

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

877

S/L

Chesson, Arthur Thomas

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

878

S/L

Smith, William Warson

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

890

G/C

MacDonald, John Kennedy Francis

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

905

W/C

Gray, Robert John

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

910

S/L

Foster, William Mortimer

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

911

A/C

Ledoux, Hugh Charles

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

913

S/L

Terry, Victor Maurice

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

920

S/L

Price, Lyall Basis Burman

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

925

S/L

Christmas, Beverly Evans

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

927

W/C

Reid, Joseph Wendell

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

931

W/C

Woolfenden, J

Foymount 10 Jan 55

933

WO2

Milford, ER

SU Metz 1 Apr 61

936

G/C

McGregor, Gordon Roy

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

938

W/C

Beddall, John Ivor Murloch

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

939

S/L

Young, John Maitland

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

941

Sgt.

Parent, JRE

2 (F) Wing 15 Sep 53

949

G/C

Ewart, Frederick James

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

950

W/C

Gibb, Robert Fred

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

952

S/L

Pallen, Gordon Stewart

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

957

W/C

Pattison, John David

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

959

G/C

Richards, Henry Gordon

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

960

G/C

Colp, Maynard Leonce

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

961

WO1

Awcock, Sidney Charles

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

965

S/L

Belton, Frederick Keith

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

966

G/C

Atkinson, Harold Hartley

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

971

W/C

Sumner, John Rohrer

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

983

A/C

Newson, William Francis M

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945, Moisie 3 Nov 64

984

S/L

Newsome, George Harvey

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

985

W/C

Vinnicombe, Harry Cail

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945, Edgar 15 Sep 52

987

F/L

Virr, Laurence Garnet Reid

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

988

F/L

Williams, Edwin Mountford

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945

995

W/C

Kehoe, BD

SU Metz 16 Oct 56

996

S/L

Cameron, Archibald MacPherson

RCAF Personnel Honours & Awards 1939-1945


Updated: March 10, 2003