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Military service
Age:
28
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Death:
April 30, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
34. I. 4.
Additional information
Son of Hugh Alexander and Jessie Elizabeth McRae, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Digital gallery of Captain Hugh Stanton McRae
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Photo of Hugh Stanton Mcrae
Capt McRae enlisted in 1940 as a rifleman and was subsequently commissioned from the ranks. Prior to his death, he had held a number of appointments in the battalion, including Adjutant. He died during training in England when the jeep he was driving collided with another vehicle. -
Gravemarker
Capt McRae's gravemarker at Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey, England. This photo was taken by myself during a visit to England in May 1997. -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me.
Digital gallery of
Captain Hugh Stanton McRae
Digital gallery of
Captain Hugh Stanton McRae
Digital gallery of
Captain Hugh Stanton McRae
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 193 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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