In memory of

Leading Aircraftman

Russell Herman Shults

who died on 14 Dec 1942

Service details
  Conflict WWII
  Service RCAF
  Unit No. 2 Bombing & Gunnery School, Royal Canadian Air Force
  Rank Leading Aircraftman
  Service number R115711
  Date of death 19421214
  Cause of death died of non-combat causes
Narrative history
  R115711 Leading Aircraftman (RCAF aero engine mechanic) Russell Herman Shults (b.1919) of Nipawin died 19421214 and is buried at Ravine Bank cemetery near Nipawin. Shults' Bolingbroke crashed in the Qu'Appelle valley west of Lumsden during a routine air frame and engine test flight from No. 2 Bombing & Gunnery School, Mossbank. He was the son of Glendyn Cecil and Ella (Peters) Shults. Russell was born at Dundurn, educated at Nipawin and was farming and doing garage work when he enlisted at Saskatoon in 1941.

RE Habkirk and HA Lightle died on the same flight.
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Memorial information
  Saskatchewan rural municipality for commemoration 487 - Nipawin
  Cemetery or memorial location Ravine Bank cemetery near Nipawin    

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  Honour roll location(s) ------
  Geo-memorial Shults Lake, Saskatchewan     
  Geo-memorial location 59.9333°N / 108.6°W
  Geo-memorial NTS map reference 74N15
  Geo-memorial details North of Tazin Lake.
Personal information
  Date of birth 19190222
  Place of birth Dundurn    
  Date of enlistment 19410725
  Place of enlistment Saskatoon    
  Residence on enlistment Nipawin    
  Occupation farmer
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