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Military service
Service number:
J/21899
Age:
23
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
405 Sqdn.
Death:
July 25, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 26.
Additional information
Son of Max and Anne Tomczak, of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Schoolmaster.
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Cemetery
Air crew plot in Ten Boer (Groningen) Protestant Cemetery. (Photo courtesy of Frans van Cappellen, The Netherlands.) F/O McCracken was a member of 405 Squadron, Pathfinder Force. Halifax HR864 was airborne 2146 25 Jul 43 from Gransden Lodge. Outbound, the aircraft was shot down by a night-fighter crashing at Ten Boer (Groningen) 12 km NE of Groningen, Holland. The crew are: F/O M. E. Tomczak; Sgt A. J. Wood RAF; F/O A. P. McCracken; Sgt C. J. V. Kettley; Sgt E. K. White; F/S M. S. Smyth; F/O A.J.Sochowski was interned in Camp L3, PoW No.1649. (Source: www.lostbombers.co.uk) -
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Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Marcel Emmett Tomczak
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 220 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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TEN-BOER-PROTESTANT-CEMETERY Netherlands
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