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Military service
Service number:
CDN/599
Age:
27
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Gordon Highlanders
Division:
2nd
Birth:
June 10, 1917
Folkstone, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
September 11, 1939
Prince George, British Columbia
Death:
August 27, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXVIII. F. 4.
Additional information
John A. Aitken was a member of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, he died while serving with the Gordon Highlanders as a CANLOAN Officer.
Son of John and Catherine Sanders Aitken. Husband of Josephine Margaret Aitken, of Vancouver, British Columbia.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 235 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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