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Flying Officer John Alexander MacLennan

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Military service

Service number: 162008
Age: 22
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: 402 "City of Winnipeg" (Fighter Bomber) Squadron
Birth: December 4, 1931 Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment: February 20, 1952 Hamilton, Ontario
Death: February 20, 1954 Teulon, Manitoba

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Grave 3842, Military Plot
Additional information

Son of John and Isabella MacLennan of Hamilton, Ontario. Brother of Robert, Pearl and Irene.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 50 of the In the Service of Canada, Vol. I (1947 – 2014) Book of Remembrance.
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WINNIPEG (BROOKSIDE) CEMETERY Manitoba, Canada

The cemetery is located immediately west of the Red River College, at 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

During the First World War, Winnipeg was the headquarters of No 10 Military District and it contained six military hospitals of 972 beds. Air force and army training camps were established in the area during the Second World War, with No 103 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre at Fort Garry. Winnipeg (Brookside) Cemetery contains 299 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 149 from the Second World War, most of them in the special military plot.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Joseph William Richardson
Private
Veterans Guard of Canada
H/98023
Kari Holmfred Benson
Private
Veterans Guard of Canada
H/54362
Karl Everett McCulloch
Lieutenant Colonel
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Keith Herbert Irvine
Flight Cadet
No. 4 Flying Training School
138526
Kenneth Frank Sarka
Trooper
Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
L/58770
Kenneth Lunan
Private
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
199209
Kurt Leonard Broddin
Private
Canadian Railway Troops
2503464
Lawrence Davis
Lance Sergeant
Royal Canadian Engineers
H/13052
Lee William Makarsky
Leading Writer
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
V/44967
Leonard Auty
Private
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
718549
Leslie Raymond Wheatcroft
Pilot Officer
Royal Canadian Air Force
C/50187
Lester Paul Prochuk
Flying Officer
Royal Canadian Air Force
230911
Lionel Charles
Private
Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
424660
Lionel Holmes
Private
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
439797
Louis Peter Gravel
Flying Officer
Royal Canadian Air Force
J/25273
Major Harston
Private
Canadian Overseas Railway Construction Corps
931566
Malcolm Adams
Private
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
292062
Malcolm Brimmer Adam
Private
Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment)
445182
Malcolm MacDonald
Private
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
21742
Marino Harold Anderson
Leading Aircraftman
Royal Canadian Air Force
R/215787
Martin Barry Lewis
Staff Quartermaster Serjeant (WO.II)
Canadian Army Pay Corps
4508

 

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