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Military service
Service number:
R/153082
Age:
20
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class II
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
February 4, 1924
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
February 9, 1942
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
May 29, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
49. E. 3.
Additional information
Son of John Ralph and Laura Ada Thompson Machum, of Halifax, Nova Scotia. His brother Ian also died on service; he also had two sisters Gene Elizabeth and Sheila Lauraine Machum
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Memorial
Warrant Officer Class II Donald Blair Machum is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Warrant Officer Class II Donald Blair Machum is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Grave marker
Photo provided by The Commonwealth Roll Of Honour Project. Volunteers Mike and Dale Symmonds -
Photo of Donald Blair Machum
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Photo of Donald Blair Machum
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Notification of death
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Newspaper clipping
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Times Globe newspaper c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Family gravemarker
Inscription to the memory of Donald Blair Machum and his brother Ian Thompson Machum on the family grave marker in Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax Nova Scotia.
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Donald Blair Machum
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Donald Blair Machum
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Donald Blair Machum
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Donald Blair Machum
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Donald Blair Machum
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Donald Blair Machum
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Donald Blair Machum
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Donald Blair Machum
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II Donald Blair Machum
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 372 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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