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Military service
Age:
29
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Death:
October 5, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Block 2, Plot 4. Row P. Grave 15.
Additional information
Son of Fred and Ethel May McIlwain; husband of May McIlwain, of Hamilton, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Donald Melford McIlwain
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Memorial scroll
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry memorial scroll for Dieppe. On display at the Lieutenant-Colonel John Weir Foote VC, CD Armoury, Hamilton, Ontario. -
Photo of DONALD MELFORD MCILWAIN
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star March 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator .c1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 97 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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