Fairey Swordfish, part two, Commonwealth & Royal Air Force users

As it could've been expected, the Fairey Swordfish was also used by some Commonwealth countries as well as the Royal Air Force. The users covered in this post are:

• Australia: The Royal Australian Air Force got six new Swordfish in 1942 in a rather unexpected way. On 17th March 1942 it was reported that a number of wooden crates had arrived at the Bullsbrook railway siding from Fremantle Port. It was assumed that they contained the expected Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk fighters that would replace the fighters of the No.77 Squadron RAAF as they were unloaded from an American cargo ship. When it was discovered that they contained Swordfish, it was decided to assemble them. They were operated mainly by No.14 and No.25 Squadrons RAAF as well as some independent HQ flights. 
• The three ones assigned to the No.25 Squadron were used in anti-submarine patrols around Rottnest Island and Gage Roads, off the port of Fremantle. Two more were assigned to the No.14 Squadron which used them in the liaison duty and they flew often between Pearce and Busselton where squadron's detachments were located. The remaining Australian Swordfish served with RAAF Pearce's Station Headquarters in communications flights. 
• Canada: The Swordfish was operated from the Naval Gunnery School at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and the Royal Navy Station at Dartmouth. In 1946 Fleet Requirement Unit 743 (RCN) was equipped with Swordfish which used them in general purpose duties. When they were finally written off, the Royal Canadian Navy's air arm reserve approved to ferry some of the veteran Swordfish to 11 Naval Reserve Divisions all across Canada for ground crew instructional purposes.
• Royal Air Force: Up to six RAF squadrons were equipped at one point with the Swordfish. Numbers 8, 119, 202, 209 and 613 Squadrons used the Swordfish, apart from two Anti-Aircraft Co-operation units (based in Gibraltar, Malta and Singapore) and one pilot advanced training unit. One of those squadrons, the No.119 was equipped with the Swordfish Mk.III very late in the war, in January 1945 to be more precise. They transitioned to the ASV-equipped variant because they had been rebased to Belgian coast in order to switch to midget submarines as their main targets, for which the ASV-radar proved to be very useful. They flew ASW patrols up to, literally VE-Day, on 8th May 1945 and the squadron was disbanded shortly later, on 25th May. 

Sources:

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Swordfish

2. http://www.adf-serials.com.au/swordfish.htm

3. http://silverhawkauthor.com/canadian-warplanes-1-the-biplane-era-fairey-swordfish_697.html

4. https://ingeniumcanada.org/aviation/collection-research/artifact-fairey-swordfish-ii.php

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._119_Squadron_RAF