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Flight Lieutenant John Muir Candlish

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Military service

Service number: J/4894
Age: 25
Rank: Flight Lieutenant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 35 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth: July 4, 1918 Godmanchester, Huntingdon
Enlistment: September 20, 1940
Death: November 12, 1943 Cannes, Calvados, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: VII. E. 2.
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Son of Robert Fairlie Candlish, and of Eva Ethel Candlish, of Montreal, Quebec.

Brother of Flying Officer F. Candlish, number C/10838, of the Royal Canadian Air Force. He survived the war.

Served in Canada and England. He had 1,149 days of service, including 284 overseas.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 143 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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ST. DESIR WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France

St Desir is a village on the N13 to Caen, 4 kilometres west of Lisieux. The war cemetery is about one kilometre west of the village and lies on a secondary road, the D159.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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