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Flight Lieutenant Lorne Munroe MacLean

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Military service

Service number: 20254
Age: 34
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 405 (Maritime Reconnaissance) Squadron
Birth: February 2, 1916 Calgary, Alberta
Death: July 31, 1950 Alert

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Son of Lachalan and Winhelmina of Calgary, Alberta. Husband of Muriel (nee Kennedy). Father of Sheila MacLean. Brother of Mrs Winhelmina Agnes MacLean.

The remains of the eight Canadians were to be repatriated south on a Canso flying boat from 103 Rescue Unit, but difficulties in getting the bodies out forced a decision to bury the Canadians in Alert.

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Page 16 of the In the Service of Canada, Vol. II (2015 – ) Book of Remembrance.
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Canadian Forces Station Alert Canada

Alert, Nunavut

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