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Military service
Service number:
J/22385
Age:
24
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
439 Squadron
Death:
March 18, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. R. 1931. Div. Grave 2721.
Additional information
Son of Wilfrid Lawrence MacTavish and Edith Jane (nee McInnis) MacTavish, of Vancouver, British Columbia. Brother of Jacqueline and Jeanette.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Roswell Murray MacTavish
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Remembering Roswell Murray MacTavish
A small group of scout leaders went searching for this crash site the day before Remembrance Sunday 2014 and left the poster with details of Macs last flight - hoping to go and visit his grave in Ayr cemetery and will lay a wreath there -
Photo of Roswell MacTavish
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Grave Marker
Flying Officer MacTavish's CWGC headstone in Ayr Cemetery, Scotland. -
Photo of Roswell Murray MacTavish
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Newspaper clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of ROSWELL MURRAY MACTAVISH
Photo of R. M. MacTavish, LAC, Ottawa -
Letter
Letter written by R. M. MacTavish, LAC, Ottawa -
Attestation paper
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Roswell Murray MacTavish
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Document
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Memorial and plaque -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. 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 Roswell Murray MacTavish
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roswell Murray MacTavish
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roswell Murray MacTavish
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roswell Murray MacTavish
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roswell Murray MacTavish
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roswell Murray MacTavish
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roswell Murray MacTavish
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roswell Murray MacTavish
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roswell Murray MacTavish
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 376 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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AYR CEMETERY (United Kingdom) Ayrshire, United Kingdom
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