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Military service
Service number:
R/273057
Age:
23
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
March 28, 1921
Fife, Scotland
Enlistment:
March 6, 1943
Montreal, Québec
Death:
August 26, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
43. H. 1.
Additional information
Son of John Stewart McMurtrie and Margaret Ann McMurtrie, of Montreal, Quebec.
Digital gallery of Sergeant James Crawford McMurtrie
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Cemetery
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Photo of JAMES CRAWFORD MCMURTRIE
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Photo of JAMES CRAWFORD MCMURTRIE
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Service Book
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Memorial
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Paying respects
A relative paying respects to her Uncle. -
Memorial
Sergeant James Crawford McMurtrie is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Sergeant James Crawford McMurtrie 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 -
Plaque
Plaque near Prestwood Bucks, UK honoring victims of tragic night training accident in August 1944, including my uncle, James Crawford McMurtrie, right column second from bottom. Elaine McMurtrie
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 390 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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