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Military service
Age:
23
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, R.C.I.C.
Death:
June 7, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XIX. F. 10.
Additional information
Son of Dr. Neil John MacLean, M.D., and of Frankie May MacLean (nee Taylor), of Winnipeg, Manitoba; husband of Dorothy Grace Isobel MacLean (nee Oliver), of Winnipeg.
Digital gallery of Captain Donald Spurgeon MacLean
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Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of Donald S. MacLean
Capaint MacLean enlisted in the Army early in WW II. He was among the first group of officers that completed their jump course at Ringway, England, in May, 1942 and posted as part of the initial officer posting for 1 Can Para Bn. He was promoted to Captain prior to the D-Day jump and was killed in action on the second day of the Normandy campaign. -
Grave marker of Donald MacLean
This a photo of Captain Donald MacLean's grave at Bretteville-sur-laize Cemetery, that I took during our Regiment's DDay + 50 visit to France in June, 1994. -
Cemetery
The Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, located 20 kilometres south of Caen, France. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Captain Donald Spurgeon MacLean
Digital gallery of
Captain Donald Spurgeon MacLean
Digital gallery of
Captain Donald Spurgeon MacLean
Digital gallery of
Captain Donald Spurgeon MacLean
Digital gallery of
Captain Donald Spurgeon MacLean
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 374 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.
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