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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.

Robert Ross Christie
Private
Canadian Army Medical Corps
2476481
Robert Stephenson
Private
Canadian Field Artillery
301787
Robert Town
Sergeant
Royal Canadian Air Force
R/119888
Roderiek McLeman
Private
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
73816
Rodney Austin Carson
Flight Sergeant
Royal Canadian Air Force
A/4161
Ronald Neil Fiala
Flying Officer
Royal Canadian Air Force
44780
Ronald Tait
Private
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
874842
Roy Dale Boehmer
Private
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada
H/20102
Roy Osgoode Wert
Lance Corporal
Veterans Guard of Canada
H/98037
Roy Thomas Craig
Corporal
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
H/26080
Russell Fremont McGill
Air Mechanic 2nd Class
Royal Air Force
72862
Russell Mcintyre Monck
Flying Officer
Royal Canadian Air Force
J/9253
Samuel Benjamin Woods
Private
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
231355
Samuel Harding
Private
Canadian Garrison Regiment
4070816
Samuel Hill
Private
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
829810
Samuel Tyshuk
Private
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
H/615910
Selena Pearl Alexander
Private
Canadian Women's Army Corps
W/22255
Seth Sarido Alloway
Able Seaman
Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve
VR/2401
Sidney George Dunn
Private
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
2380085
Sidney William Astle
Lieutenant
Royal Canadian Armoured Corps
Stafford Beaumont
Quartermaster Sergeant
The Fort Garry Horse
2147569

 

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