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Military service
Service number:
J/28486
Age:
22
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
431 Sqdn.
Birth:
December 5, 1921
Vancouver, British Columbia
Enlistment:
July 8, 1942
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
July 29, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 247.
Additional information
Son of Matthew and Grace MacFarlane of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Matthew Ernest Reid MacFarlane
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Inscription
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial, September 2010, photo courtesy of Marg Liessens. -
Photo of Matthew MacFarlane
The crew on aboard Halifax MZ589 was lost during an operation to Hamburg. Six Canadian airmen were lost, Joseph Collver, Robert Leman, Norman Bailey, Matthew MacFarlane, Norman Jermey and William Sorel. Submitted by Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Matthew MacFarlane
In memory of the students from the University of British Columbia who went to war and did not return. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Matthew Ernest Reid MacFarlane is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Matthew Ernest Reid MacFarlane is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of Matthew Ernest Reid MacFarlane
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Document
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Identification
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Document
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Correspondence
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Correspondence
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Matthew Ernest Reid MacFarlane
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Matthew Ernest Reid MacFarlane
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Matthew Ernest Reid MacFarlane
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Matthew Ernest Reid MacFarlane
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Matthew Ernest Reid MacFarlane
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Matthew Ernest Reid MacFarlane
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Matthew Ernest Reid MacFarlane
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Matthew Ernest Reid MacFarlane
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Matthew Ernest Reid MacFarlane
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 372 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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