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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.

Wilfred Proctor
Private
Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
440093
Willard Wambolt
Gunner
Canadian Artillery
86996
William Alex Hutton Knox
Private
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
420950
William Bleasdell
Private
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
841732
William Buckels
Engine Room Artificer 1st Class
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
V/67942
William Charles Billett
Corporal
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
721132
William Charles Spokes
Private
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
261559
William Clark MacIntyre
Lance Corporal
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
H/99310
William Coleman
Private
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
718101
William Daniel Acorn
Private
Canadian Infantry Division
2378937
William Donald McMillan
Sapper
Royal Canadian Engineers
D/17025
William Donald McMurchy
Private
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
3345029
William Edwin Platt
Corporal
440 Transport and Rescue Squadron
87378
William Francis Byde
Private
Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
424637
William Frank Pinkard
Private
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
820912
William Frederick Mills
Flight Sergeant
Royal Canadian Air Force
R/95119
William Harold Lang
Constable
Canadian Corps Military Police
294777
William Henry Prince
Corporal
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
830488
William Huggins
Private
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
859016
William Irvin Bruce
Sergeant
Royal Canadian Air Force
R/186736
William James Ferguson
Private
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
1656

 

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