Ross Pringle Fahrni

Ross Pringle Fahrni

Ross Pringle Fahrni was born in 1921 in Manitoba.  Ross was the son of Stanley Harrison Fahrni and Edith Josephine Mincker.

At the time of the 1931 Canada Census, the Fahrni family was residing in Gladstone town, Manitoba.

1931 Canada Census

Stanley, aged 42, is employed as a lawyer, and Edith who is 32 years old.  Their children are

Harrison, aged 15; Madalen, aged 13; Ross, aged 10, and Joan, aged 3. 

Ross Pringle Fahrni 
Attestations Papers

Ross enlisted on the 10^th of July 1940 to serve with the Royal Canadian Air Force.  Ross’s Attestations Papers have survived.

The tides in South Wales are recognised as the second highest globally, surpassed only by the Bay of Fundy channel in Newfoundland. These tidal movements occur twice daily over ten hours, advancing at approximately 4 mph in deep water. As a result, debris is carried upstream and downstream, occasionally being deposited along the coast or, in some instances, retained within the current.

Ross Pringle Fahrni 
St. Hilary churchyard, Killay
credit - findagrave

29^th August, 10 days after the accident, the guard room of the RAF Chivenor received a call from RAF Fairwood, to inform them that another body had been recovered, having been washed up on Swansea beach.  The body was identified as Ross Pringle Fahrni.  The staff at RAF Fairwood buried the body with full military honours at St. Hilary churchyard, Killay, on the 5^th of September