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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, Québec
Enlistment:
September 20, 1940
Montréal, Québec
Death:
November 12, 1943
Cannes, Calvados, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
VII. E. 2.
Additional information
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.
Digital gallery of Flight Lieutenant John Muir Candlish
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Photo of John Candlish
Photo submitted for the project Operation Picture Me with the permission of McGill University from their web site, 'McGill Remembers' -
Photo of John Muir Candlish
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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F/L John Muir Candlish Montreal Star Nov 16, 1943 courtesy McGill University archives -
Memorial
Flight Lieutenant John Muir Candlish is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Lieutenant John Muir Candlish is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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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
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John Muir Candlish
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John Muir Candlish
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John Muir Candlish
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John Muir Candlish
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John Muir Candlish
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John Muir Candlish
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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