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Military service
Service number:
J/6179
Age:
30
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
February 12, 1912
Etowah, United Provinces, India
Enlistment:
November 4, 1940
Montréal, Québec
Death:
July 4, 1942
India
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
5. A. 6.
Additional information
Son of Lt Col William Ernest McKechnie and Marion Elsie McKechnie (née Curram). Educated at McGill University, Montreal (BEd). Brother of Group Captain William Neil McKechnie, Royal Air Force, who died on 30 August 1944 and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
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Pilot Officer John Kenneth McKechnie obit Montreal Star Jul 16 1942 courtesy McGill University archives
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Pilot Officer John Kenneth McKechnie
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 97 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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