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Squadron Leader John Mason Rutherford

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Military service

Service number: C/2870
Age: 47
Rank: Squadron Leader
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth: June 27, 1897 Edinburgh, Scotland
Death: February 2, 1945

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: 5. A. 6.
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Son of John Smart and Marion Mason Rutherford. Husband of Yvonne Alice Rutherford, of Montreal, Québec.

FREETOWN (KING TOM) CEMETERY Sierra Leone

FREETOWN (KING TOM) CEMETERY is enclosed by the old King Tom Dockyard, now the Police Mechanical Repair Workshop, on the north-eastern shore of King Tom Peninsula. It is about 10 minutes by taxi from the main centre of Freetown to the cemetery area.

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