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Military service
Service number:
R/61972
Age:
22
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
97 Sqdn.
Birth:
April 18, 1921
Humboldt, Saskatchewan
Death:
December 4, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 185.
Additional information
Son of William Hope and Gladys Lillian (née Keen) Marchant, of Clair, Saskatchewan. Brother of Robert Alexander, Ada Isobel, Dorothy Jean and Flying Officer John Phillip Marchant, J/85813, killed in action 25 March 1945. Nephew of Mrs. W.J. Cranmer, Edgeware, Middlesex, England.
Additional citations
1939-45, Air Crew Europe Star, War Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp. Operational Wings posthumously awarded 11 October 1946.
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Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flight Sergeant James Earl Marchant is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flight Sergeant James Earl Marchant is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Earl Marchant
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Earl Marchant
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Earl Marchant
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Earl Marchant
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Earl Marchant
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Earl Marchant
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Earl Marchant
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Earl Marchant
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant James Earl Marchant
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 187 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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