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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.

Charles Wood
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Charles Yeomans
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Christopher Arthur Silver
Company Quarter Master Sergeant
Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment)
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Christopher Bagnall Horton
Gunner
Canadian Field Artillery
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Clarence Rose
Private
Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment)
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Claude Felton
Private
Canadian Mounted Rifles
115688
Clifford Alexander Harvey
Leading Aircraftman
Royal Canadian Air Force
R/172898
Clifford Horsfall
Stoker 2nd Class
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
V/40851
Cornelius Vanderbilt Murphy
Company Quarter Master Sergeant
The Canadian Provost Corps
H/59002
Currie Arthur Sanderson
Rifleman
Royal Winnipeg Rifles
H/41080
Daniel George Reeves
Private
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
148492
Daniel Henry Ellis
Trooper
Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians), R.C.A.C.
2293586
Daniel Newman
Aircraftman 2nd Class
Royal Canadian Air Force
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David Allen Jones
Leading Aircraftman
Royal Canadian Air Force
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David Brown
Private
Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
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David Earl Anderson
Flight Lieutenant
Royal Canadian Air Force
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David Edmond
Cadet
Royal Flying Corps
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David George Harries
Private
Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
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David Leslie Thompson Wilson
Pilot Officer
Royal Canadian Air Force
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David Miller
Private
Prince Edward Island Highlanders
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David Shearer
Sergeant
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
420796

 

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