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Military service
Service number:
R/74892
Age:
20
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
175 Sqdn.
Birth:
October 15, 1921
Spokane
Enlistment:
October 25, 1940
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
June 28, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 105.
Additional information
Son of Hugh and Eva McLachlan. Brother of Lieutenant Donald Hugh McLachlan who died on May 23, 1944 while serving with the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant William John Andrew McLachlan
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Vancouver Sun. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Allied Airmen Memorial
The 153 airmen listed on the memorial came from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Czechoslovakia and the United Kingdom. Some were shot down while carrying out missions over the German occupied Channel Islands, while others were returning from missions elsewhere in Europe.<P> Allied Airmen Memorial is located at Guernsey Airport, La Villiaze, Forest, Guernsey.<P> Photo courtesy of John S. Brehaut. -
Allied Airmen Memorial
The 153 airmen listed on the memorial came from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Czechoslovakia and the United Kingdom. Some were shot down while carrying out missions over the German occupied Channel Islands, while others were returning from missions elsewhere in Europe.<P> Allied Airmen Memorial is located at Guernsey Airport, La Villiaze, Forest, Guernsey.<P> Photo courtesy of John S. Brehaut. -
Allied Airmen Memorial
The 153 airmen listed on the memorial came from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Czechoslovakia and the United Kingdom. Some were shot down while carrying out missions over the German occupied Channel Islands, while others were returning from missions elsewhere in Europe.<P> Allied Airmen Memorial is located at Guernsey Airport, La Villiaze, Forest, Guernsey.<P> Photo courtesy of John S. Brehaut. -
Inscription
The 153 airmen listed on the memorial came from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Czechoslovakia and the United Kingdom. Some were shot down while carrying out missions over the German occupied Channel Islands, while others were returning from missions elsewhere in Europe.<P> Allied Airmen Memorial is located at Guernsey Airport, La Villiaze, Forest, Guernsey.<P> Photo courtesy of John S. Brehaut. -
Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 97 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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