CONRAD, Walter Allan Grenfell

Stats:

rank: S/L
status: survived
airforce: RCAF    (no: J5023 )
born: 1920-04-03 Melrose Canada

added by: Nigel Dobbie

RCAF 421 Squadron Leader as of "D" Day

Born at Melrose, Ontario, 3 April 1920
Home in Richmond, Ontario
Enlisted 23 August 1940.
Trained at
No.1 ITS 9 Nov. to 9 Dec.'40
No.11 EFTS 10 Dec.'40 to 27 Jan.'41
No.2 SFTS 28 January to 11 April 1941
Arrived in UK, 6 June 1941.
Trained at No.59 OTU.
Posted to No.274 Squadron, 19 Sept.'41
No.145 Squadron, 16 July to 11 Sept.'42
UK, 15 February 1943.
To No.403 Squadron, 6 May 1943.
Decorated by King George VI 29 June 1943 DFC

Shot down in June '42
- picked up by retreating Indian Division
17 August 1943 - mid-air collision with
- wingman (F/S G.M. Shouldice) over Dunkirk
Evaded capture - walked into Spain
(Shouldice (KIA) attempted to return to England
(damaged canopy) & splashed into the Channel)
Reported safe in UK, 10 October 1943.
Returned to Canada immediately
Posted overseas again, 30 December 1943
With 421 Squadron, 1 Jan. to 28 July '44
Returned to Canada, 6 August 1944;
Staff officer until released, 16 Oct.'45