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Military service
Service number:
K/5108
Age:
39
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class II
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Artillery
Division:
8 Field Regt.
Birth:
March 27, 1905
Tantallon, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
September 24, 1939
Cranbrook, British Columbia
Death:
November 9, 1944
Perugio, Italy
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. A. 8.
Additional information
Son of Alexander and Mary Jane McMillan. Husband of Hilda M. McMillan, of Erickson, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Warrant Officer Class II Melvin Weir McMillan
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Photo of Melvin Weir McMillan
While Mel McMillan was training in Edmonton before being shipped overseas, he visited with my our family here. This photo was taken at the train station in Edmonton by my grandfather, Robert McBride Maze, just before Mel left, headed for Italy. -
Photo of Melvin Weir McMillan
Mel McMillan (middle) about to leave for overseas. Taken by my grandfather, Robert McBride Maze, at the train station in Edmonton.
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Melvin Weir McMillan
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Melvin Weir McMillan
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Commemorated on:
Page 390 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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