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Military service
Service number:
J/28958
Age:
22
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant Navigator
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
97 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
Birth:
December 30, 1922
Comox, British Columbia
Enlistment:
August 4, 1942
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
February 23, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
10. 7.
Additional information
Son of Robert and Dorothy McQuillan. Brother of Edwin, Darrell, Warren, Bryce, Eleanor, Alma, Viola, Doreen, Marian, Helen and Leona McQuillan.
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant Navigator Murray Robert McQuillan
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Photo of Murray Robert McQuillan
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Medals
Murray's Medals. 1939-45 Star, France Star, German Star, the Defense Medal, the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with clasp, and the War Medal 1939-45 -
Certificate
McQuillan Lake Dedication -
Newspaper Clipping
Comox Valley Newspaper article by Jennifer Blyth. Families loss also recognized. -
Photo of MURRAY ROBERT MCQUILLAN
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of MURRAY ROBERT MCQUILLAN
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
RAF 97 Squadron team
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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 Lieutenant Navigator Murray Robert McQuillan is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Lieutenant Navigator Murray Robert McQuillan is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.April 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 544 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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TONSBERG OLD CEMETERY Norway
TONSBERG OLD CEMETERY is on the coast between Fredriksvern and Oslo, and the war graves are in the south-west part of the cemetery. Of the twenty nine graves from both wars, fourteen are unidentified.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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