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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.

Henry Headley
Private
Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
150111
Henry Hedley
Private
Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
460960
Henry Hedley Higginbottom
Private
Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force
460960
Henry Ireland
Private
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
700461
Henry James Mason
Corporal
The Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
H/6768
Henry Windred
Private
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
922629
Herbert Anderson
Private
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
H/54226
Herbert Goddard
Gunner
Royal Canadian Artillery
H/66579
Herbert Hibbins
Lance Corporal
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
700485
Herbert Simpson
Private
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
829341
Herbert Whitton
Sergeant
Canadian Field Artillery
907938
Hermann Adolph Latschislaw
Corporal
The Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers
SH 207415
Hugh Bowie
Private
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
892233
Hugh John Taylor
Cadet
Royal Air Force
272376
Jack Thomas Watson
Private
Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
H/6233
James Arthur McKay
Leading Aircraftman
Royal Canadian Air Force
R/71112
James Campbell
Private
Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment)
422045
James Cecil Smith
Flight Lieutenant
111 Composite Unit, RCAF
34480
James Dewar Young
Flying Officer
RCAF Station Gimli
33209
James Erskine Patterson
Sapper
Royal Engineers
312006
James Ewart Blackford
Lieutenant
Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.

 

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