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Aeneas Francis MacDonald

In memory of:

Flight Sergeant Aeneas Francis MacDonald

February 3, 1943

Military Service


Service Number:

R/103766

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

78 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

Additional Information


Son of J. A. Macdonald, and of Florence Macdonald, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Commemorated on Page 183 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

10. D. 6.

Location:

Sage is a village 24 km south of Oldenburg, a town 43 km west of Bremen and 28 km north of the main road from Bremen to Holland. The cemetery lies 2 km south of the village on the west side of the road to Osnabruck. From the A1 Bremen/Munster motorway visitors should leave at the Wildeshousen Nord junction and take 213 following signs for Alhorn and Oldenburg. After 8 km and immediately after the village of Alhorn turn right at the roundabout and follow signs for Oldenburg along the Oldenburgerstrasse. The cemetery lies on the left hand side of the road 4 km from Alhorn.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial– Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Flight Sergeant Aeneas Francis MacDonald as commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Flight Sergeant Aeneas Francis MacDonald is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Photo of Aeneas Francis MacDonald– Full Names of Parents were: John Alan MacDonald and Florence Mary Macdonald
Born in Newgate October 4th in 1919, British Columbia which is now underwater Lake Koocanusa, the whole family moved to Vancouver in 1935 to 1622 East 1st Avenue.
Survived by Brothers Ranald MacDonald, Jack MacDonald( Survived WWII Veteran 8th Army Sicily all the way to Holland), Rod MacDonald and Sisters Mary MacDonald, Irene Piercy, Clare Stoker.
A distant Cousin to John McCrae.
  • Newspaper clipping– From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me

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