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Military service
Service number:
R/221847
Age:
23
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
405 Sqdn.
Birth:
January 8, 1922
Chater, Manitoba
Enlistment:
March 8, 1943
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
January 28, 1945
Germany
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 8. C. 9-11.
Additional information
Son of Harvey MacDuff and Laura Mae Rae of Brandon, Manitoba.
Brother of Private Ronald Rae, who died while serving with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada and of Flight Sergeant James Douglas Rae, who died while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant John Maccauley Rae
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Biography
Source: "A Place of Honour: Manitoba's War Dead". -
Photo of John Rae
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Id Card
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of John Rae
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant John MacCauley Rae is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flight Sergeant John MacCauley Rae is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Maccauley Rae
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Maccauley Rae
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Maccauley Rae
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Maccauley Rae
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Maccauley Rae
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Maccauley Rae
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Maccauley Rae
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Maccauley Rae
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant John Maccauley Rae
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 556 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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