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Flying Officer Donald Gordon McKay

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Military service

Service number: J/28933
Age: 21
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 405 Sqdn.
Birth: February 11, 1923 Portage la Prairie, Manitoba
Enlistment: October 20, 1941 Manitoba
Death: January 16, 1945

Burial/memorial information

DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: 6. F. 24.
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Son of James Gordon McKay and Florence May McKay, of Portage La Prairie, Manitoba. Brother of Murray Roy McKay who was killed in action on April 9, 1945 while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 543 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY Germany

Durnbach is a village 16 kilometres east of Bad Tolz, a town 48 kilometres south of Munich. Durnbach War Cemetery is 3 kilometres north of the village Gmund am Tegernsee. Using the A8 from Munich, turn off at the junction Holzkirchen, taking the 318 road in the direction of Gmund am Tegernsee. At the crossroads with the 472, turn left in the direction of Miesbach. The cemetery is situated approximately 500 metres on the left from the 318/472 crossroads.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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