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John Andrew McEachern

In memory of:

Sergeant John Andrew McEachern

September 21, 1941

Military Service


Service Number:

R/172503

Age:

27

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

#20 Operational Training Unit (Train To Triumph)

Additional Information


Born:

April 14, 1914
Mount Stewart, Prince Edward Island

Enlistment:

August 22, 1940
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

Son of John Stewart MacEachern and Margaret Elizabeth MacEachern, of Mount Stewart, Prince Edward Island.

Commemorated on Page 38 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

LOSSIEMOUTH BURIAL GROUND
Moray, United Kingdom

Grave Reference:

Grave 1081.

Location:

Lossiemouth is a seaport town and coastguard station on the Moray Firth, some five miles due north of Elgin. The burial ground lies between the railway station and Spynie Canal, about a mile and a quarter from the railway station, and it contains war graves of both world wars. There was a Royal Air Force Station at Lossiemouth and when war broke out in 1939 there was already an Air Force plot in the burial ground. This was used for the majority of the service war burials, and only 23 are elsewhere in the cemetery. This plot lies to the right of the main entrance; the Cross of Sacrifice stands at the summit of a slope facing the graves. Inevitably there are a small number of pre-war Air Force graves among the war graves, and three men of the Royal Navy and one belonging to the Royal Canadian Navy who died after the war have also been buried here.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial– Sergeant John Andrew McEachern is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Sergeant John Andrew McEachern 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
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Charlottetown PEI newspaper The Guardian. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Charlottetown PEI newspaper The Guardian. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
  • Lossiemouth Burial Ground
  • Cross of Sacrifice
  • Grave Marker

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