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Military service
Service number:
J/85813
Age:
25
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
408 Sqdn.
Birth:
June 13, 1919
Clair, Saskatchewan
Death:
March 25, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
12. G. 9.
Additional information
Son of William Hope and Gladys Lillian (née Keen) Marchant, of Clair, Saskatchewan. Brother of Robert Alexander, Ada Isobel, Dorothy Jean and Flight Sergeant James Earl Marchant R/61972, killed in action on 4 December 1943. Nephew of Mrs. W.J. Cranmer, Edgeware, Middlesex, England.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, General Service Badge, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp. Operational Wings posthumously awarded on 14 February 1947.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer John Phillip Marchant
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flying Officer John Phillip Marchant is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Flying Officer John Phillip Marchant is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of Flying Officer John Philip Marchant
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Photo of John Philip Marchant
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Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Phillip Marchant
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Phillip Marchant
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Phillip Marchant
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Phillip Marchant
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Phillip Marchant
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer John Phillip Marchant
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 539 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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