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Duncan Mcvey Carkner

In memory of:

Sergeant Duncan Mcvey Carkner

February 7, 1944
Caswell, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom

Military Service


Service Number:

R/135758

Age:

25

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Additional Information


Born:

February 17, 1918
Kenmore, Ontario

Enlistment:

October 23, 1941
Ottawa, Ontario

Son of Stanley and Isabella McVey Carkner, of Kenmore, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 268 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

OXFORD (BOTLEY) CEMETERY
Berkshire, United Kingdom

Grave Reference:

Plot I/2. Grave 155.

Location:

Botley is 2 miles west of the city of Oxford in the civil parish of North Hinksey. Leave the Oxford Western bypass (A34) at the Botley interchange and take the exit signposted Oxford A420. At the traffic lights bear left then immediately right into North Hinksey Lane. The entrance to the cemetery is about 200 yards along on the right hand side.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Newspaper Clipping– Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of DUNCAN MCVEY CARKNER– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram February 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Grave marker

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