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Flying Officer John Alexander MacLennan

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Military service

Service number: 162008
Age: 22
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: 402 "City of Winnipeg" (Fighter Bomber) Squadron
Birth: December 4, 1931 Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment: February 20, 1952 Ontario
Death: February 20, 1954 Teulon, Manitoba

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Grave 3842, Military Plot
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Son of John and Isabella MacLennan of Hamilton, Ontario. Brother of Robert, Pearl and Irene.

WINNIPEG (BROOKSIDE) CEMETERY Manitoba, Canada

The cemetery is located immediately west of the Red River College, at 3001 Notre Dame Avenue, in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

During the First World War, Winnipeg was the headquarters of No 10 Military District and it contained six military hospitals of 972 beds. Air force and army training camps were established in the area during the Second World War, with No 103 Canadian Army Basic Training Centre at Fort Garry. Winnipeg (Brookside) Cemetery contains 299 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 149 from the Second World War, most of them in the special military plot.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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