PRESENTATION OF SECOND SPITFIRE
BY CANADIAN POLICE

THE SECOND Canadian Police Spitfire
Fund has been completed and Spitfire No.
2, christened the “General D. C. Draper”
is by now taking part in air operations over
Britain. Reaching the fund’s objective in
September, the second Canadian police
fighter was a timely Christmas gift for good
old John Bull.

During the Second Spitfire Fund drive
policemen from coast to coast in Canada,
with the international help of their fellow
policemen in the U. 5S. raised and con-
tributed sufficient money to completely pay
for another famous Spitfire fighter. The first
plane bought by Canadian police officers,
called “The Canadian Policeman” was
flown by Pilot Officer Gordon F. Hoben,
R.C.A.F., a former Canadian police officer.

Unfortunately Pilot Officer Hoben was

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killed last July when his plane crashed and
burned as he tried to get it back to his home
base in England, after receiving anti-air-
craft hits in one of the plane’s many raids
over occupied France. Even before his death,
and the destruction of the first police plane,
Canadian police were busy raising enough
money to pay for a second Spitfire. News

Inspr. James Reid of the Peter-
borough, (Ont.) Police Department,
Treasurer of the Spitfire Fund,
wishes to take this opportunity of
congratulating the B. C. Police on
the excellent way they have sup-
ported the two Spitfire Funds, and
asks their continued co-operation
in this very worthwhile coast-to-
coast all-Canadian police war
activity.

of the destruction of “The Canadian Police-
man” only spurred them on to speedy com-
pletion of their task.

In naming the second police Spitfire
“The General D. C. Draper” the Police
Association of Ontario, sponsors of the
Police Spitfire drives, honour the Chief of
Police of the City of Toronto, Brigadier
General D. C. Draper, C.M.G., D.S.O., an
outstanding police officer in the Dominion
of Canada, known and respected also in
Britain and the United States. General
Draper served with distinction in the first
world war and several times has offered his

Insp. J. Reid, Treasurer of Spitfire Fund

services in the present conflict. Twi
has gone to England, and during the height
of the blitz on Britain consulted with and
gave co-operation to high police officials of
Scotland Yard and military leaders. He
travelled the bombed streets of London at
great personal risk during the raids to spat
conditions at first hand.

Chief Draper has been an active suppone
of the Canadian Police Spitfire fund, having
been directly responsible for raising over
$8,000.00 in the first two campaigns, and
is now helping the drive for the third|
fighter.

To express appreciation of his active
leadership in the three Spitfire drives his
name has been placed on Canadian Police
Spitfire No. 2.

The cheque for $25,000.00 to purchase
Spitfire No. 2 was forwarded to Major G.
W. Ball, a former R.C.M.P. officer now in
charge of the Canadian Provost Corps in
Great Britain. Major Ball has made arrange-
ments for the presentation of the “General
D. C. Draper” to the R.C.A.F. j

The pilot of the new plane will be some
former Canadian police officer now in the
REG. Ack:

One of the things which Caden pale
officers are more than pleased about in con-
nection with the Spitfire drives, is that not
one cent of the money donated was used to
cover administration costs. Every penny
collected went directly into the Fund. And
everybody from coast to coast co-operated.

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