Aage Koldbye Jensen

Flt Lt Aage Koldby Jensen (C8010) was one of the Danish born serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War.

Aage Koldby Jensen was born on 20 January 1908 in Aarhus., the son of cooper Carl Marius Jensen and Mary Oline Nikoline Henriette Jensen.^[1] Jensen emigrated to Canada in 1927 arriving in Quebec on 3 September 1927.^[2]

Jensen worked as a Woolworth store manager in Flin Flon for eleven years before the war.^[3] He was naturalised ten years from his arrival to Canada, on 3 September 1937.^[4]

Jensen enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in Winnipeg as Equipment Officer on 17 October 1941 and was posted to 1 Manning Depot. Two weeks later, on 1 November, he was posted to Technical Training School, St. Thomas, and he was posted to RCAF Station Vancouver on 13 December 1941. He was granted the rank of Flying Officer on 15 December 1941. On 8 February 1942, he was posted to 3 Manning Depot, Edmonton, and on 22 May 1942, he was posted to “Y” Depot for overseas service.

He disembarked in the United Kingdom on 18 June 1942 for duty with Overseas Headquarters. He was promoted Flight Lieutenant on 1 February 1943. In the fall of 1943, 28 August to 15 October 1943, he was detached to 31 Munitions Unit for course at 42 Explosives Depot. Jensen was posted to Headquarters, 83 Group on 21 November 1943 and followed the group to France shortly after D-Day on 23 June 1944. He returned to United Kingdom on 6 December 1944 and, two days later, he was promoted Acting Squadron Leader.^[5] Furthermore, he was mentioned in dispatches effective on 1 January 1945.^[6] In the spring of 1945, he was attached to 92 Munitions Unit on 18-20 January 1945 and again from 6 February to 11 April 1945.

After VE-day, on 14 July 1945, Jensen was posted to 8402 (Air Disarmament) Wing and served in this unit until January 1946.The following month he was repatriated and he retired from the RCAF on 25 February 1946.^[7]

Jensen died in January 1997 in Somerset, England.^[8]

Endnotes

[1] DNA: Parish register, Aarhus Domsogn.

[2] LAC: RG 76/684377.

[3] RCAF Personnel Awards 1939-1949 database compiled by Hugh Halliday, www.rcafassociation.ca (accessed on 27 June 2020).

[4] Canadian Gazette 1937 (316788, p. 1873).

[5] RCAF Personnel Awards 1939-1949 database compiled by Hugh Halliday, www.rcafassociation.ca (accessed on 27 June 2020).

[6] The London Gazette, 36866.

[7] RCAF Personnel Awards 1939-1949 database compiled by Hugh Halliday, www.rcafassociation.ca (accessed on 27 June 2020).

[8] Ancestry: England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007.