Ronald Loughton Movold Sergeant R/252874 433 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force September 8, 1925 Kamloops, British Columbia April 20, 1943 Vancouver, BC Vancouver, BC 17 5 feet, 7¼ inches Medium Blue Light Brown Single Shipyard Worker Church of England Oscar Movold (Father) Vancouver, BC July 14, 1944 18 Andreas (St. Andrew) Churchyard, Isle of Man, UK Grave 20

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Ronald Loughton Movold was the son of Oscar Movold and Helen Movold of North Vancouver, British Columbia. In 1942 he served as an Air Cadet with 111th Cadet Squadron, Vancouver, for three months in 1942. Following training in Canada he went overseas departing Halifax on January 20, 1944 and disembarking in the UK on January 31, 1944. He was awarded his Air Gunners Badge on November 26, 1943. Sergeant Movold was assigned to 433 RCAF Squadron, RAF Skipton-on-Swale, North Yorkshire on July 6, 1944. On July 14, 1944, Halifax LW115 with a crew of seven, including Ronald Movold serving as Air Gunner departed RAF Skipton-on- Swale en route to the Isle of Man, on a training flight. The plane developed mechanical problems and at approximately 4:20 pm the aircraft exploded in mid air and crashed at Lonan, near Laxey on the Isle of Man. All seven members of the crew were killed. Debris and fuel fell on a property causing a fire. Four were injured and a three year boy died, the result of burns from the crash. A monument in memory of the crew and Allan McCullock, the 3 year old All Saint’s Churchyard, Lonan, Isle of Man was unveiled in 2006.