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Donald Irwin MacVicar

In memory of:

Flight Sergeant Donald Irwin MacVicar

July 29, 1944

Military Service


Service Number:

R/189676

Age:

21

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

576 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

Additional Information


Born:

July 23, 1923
Lachute, Quebec

Enlistment:

September 7, 1942
Montréal, Quebec

Son of Amos N. MacVicar and Nettie Kettyle MacVicar, of Lachine, Quebec.

Commemorated on Page 376 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

SARREWERDEN COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Bas-Rhin, France

Grave Reference:

Coll. grave.

Location:

Sarrewerden is a very small village 62 kilometres north-west of Strasbourg. It has a railway station, on the Nancy- Sarreguemines line. The communal cemetery is on the south-eastern outskirts of the village in a by-road leading to the neighbouring village of Burbach. Near the middle of the eastern wall is the collective grave of 3 airmen, 1 of whom belonged to the Royal Air Force and 2 to the Royal Canadian Air Force.

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 Donald Irwin MacVicar is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Flight Sergeant Donald Irwin MacVicar is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Photo of Donald Irwin MacVicar– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Donald Irwin MacVicar– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Sarrewerden Communal Cemetery

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